Freedom Quotes - Page 6

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.