Freedom Quotes - Page 84

Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

The dignity of man is in free choice.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

The freedom of poetic license.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

There is nothing that we are allowed to do under USA Freedom Act that we could not do before.

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink or not drink, there is no good reply you can give to people who say, More important than the body is the mind and the soul, and man hurts himself much more by reading bad books, by listening to bad music and looking at bad movies. Therefore it is the duty of the government to prevent people from committing those faults. And, as you know, for many hundreds of years governments and authorities velieved that it was their duty.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.

All go free when multitudes offend.

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.