Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

To change masters is not to be free.

To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you advocate the unlimited freedom of each individual to manufacture dollars?" If dollars are really and properly things-in-themselves, why not let everyone manufacture them as they manufacture wheat and baby food?

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

True obedience is true freedom.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to take over the direction of their spiritual lives and who will tell them what to do and how to think. A guide or a counselor is understandable, as in sports or music or in any pursuit, but that is not enough. Many mistakenly believe they have to be led each step of the way.

Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?