Freedom Quotes - Page 74

No man may make another free.

Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices.

Because of the free speech clause in the First Amendment, which is very clear, "The government shall make no law abridging freedom of speech," and it literally is about political speech. You can say anything you want about politics, a candidate, and the government cannot stop you. And the Democrats hate that.