Freedom Quotes - Page 45

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

The right to be respected is won by respecting others.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.