Freedom Quotes - Page 62

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.

No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.