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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

The right to be respected is won by respecting others.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

The secret of freedom, courage.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.