Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.

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

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.

Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to ultimate freedom, nirvana - and that is the goal of life. And it is only by attaining that freedom that you will know the significance of being, the song of being, the celebration of being. Your life will become a continuous bliss, and not only that YOU will be blissful, you will be able to bless others too. The whole existence will be blessed by you, by your very presence.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.