Freedom Quotes - Page 54

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God.

When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.

I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.