Freedom Quotes - Page 80

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

The law is agnostic about truth.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

There is a time and a place for creativity.

The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.