Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities who control appointments to academic positions, want to know nothing of it, and to see the criterion of truth in the approval of a government office.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.