Freedom Quotes - Page 93

There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?

The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

Interdependency follows independence.