Quotes about free
freedom democracy trials
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. Joseph A. Schumpeter
freedom names liberty
The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom. Jose Marti
freedom democracy details
The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary. Jose Ortega y Gasset
freedom
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom. Joni Mitchell
freedom liberty strings
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? Khalil Gibran
freedom men being-free
A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. Khalil Gibran
freedom liberty greater
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. Khalil Gibran
freedom forget form
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. Khalil Gibran
freedom slave freeman
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen. Jonathan Swift
freedom thinking government
As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom. Lyn Nofziger
freedom men evil
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Louis D. Brandeis
freedom blow arms
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Lord Byron
freedom cynical dignity
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. Lord Byron
freedom criticism helping
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it. Lord Kelvin
freedom mean independence
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom hands jail
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom minorities majority
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority. Mahatma Gandhi
free-love animosity
Love transcends all animosity and is never partial. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom liberty birth
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom independent public-opinion
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom men arms
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom weapons weak
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom democracies-have democracy
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom sheep people
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom men thinking
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom together democracy
Democracy and violence can ill go together. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom democracy sides
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom land feet
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any Mahatma Gandhi
freedom thoughtful action
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom mistake struggle
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom messengers messages
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom libertarian-party liberty
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom hate poison
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate. Mahatma Gandhi