Freedom Quotes - Page 70

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them to their ruin. In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security and a comfortable life; and they lost all-comfort and security and freedom.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

It comes from within.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.