Freedom Quotes - Page 56

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

We didn't love freedom enough.

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.