Freedom Quotes - Page 9

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

There is no must in art because art is free.