Freedom Quotes - Page 78

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

Free men set themselves free.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.

Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.