Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

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.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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

The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.

The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.