Liberty Quotes - Page 53

Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty.

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle.

I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.

The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Interior liberty is universal.

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.