Freedom Quotes - Page 68

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.