Freedom Quotes - Page 53

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

True obedience is true freedom.

Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again... Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Freedom exists only with power.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.