Quotes about free
freedom improve law public unwelcome
The law on glorification may well have unwelcome implications for freedom of speech, but it will do nothing to improve public safety. Menzies Campbell
freed good hurt last matches nervous played
The last matches had hurt our self-confidence, you could see that. We were nervous at first. But the 1-0 freed us up and I think we played a pretty good match after that. Felix Magath
free last rebound shoots throws
(The last foul) was game-changing. He shoots it short, we get the rebound and the pressure's on them. They get two free throws and we have to score. Rafer Alston
free missed ourselves position
The little things, it's an accumulation of the little things. We do the things to put ourselves in position to win, but then it's a turnover, or a missed rebound, or a missed free throw.
freedom giving-up men
When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom. James Thurber
freedom men law
There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please. James Otis
freedom taken liberty
Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
freedom responsibility rights
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age. James Mackintosh
freedom europe practice
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness. James Madison
freedom law people
If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.
freedom lying men
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.
freedom one-day liberty
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
freedom rights government
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its fruits: that industry from which property results, and that enjoyment which consists not merely in its immediate use, but in its posthumous destination to objects of choice and of kindred affection. In a just and free government, therefore, the rights both of property and of persons ought to be effectually guarded.
freedom democracies-have rights
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
freedom democracies-have people
The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone.
freedom tyrants too-late
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. Emile M. Cioran
freedom long rejection
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
freedom liberty force
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty. Ellen Key
freedom men restraint
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. Epictetus
freedom self liberty
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. Epicurus
freedom names vices
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
freely held knows responsibility sin soon takes
An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes. Max Heindel
free main meetings
All of the meetings here are free - that's one of the main criteria.
free men sailors sea shall
All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them. Leonard Cohen
free knock practicing season struggling
All season we've been struggling with our free throws. We were practicing them and we were able to knock them down.
freedom democracy weapons
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. Edward Teller
freedom people liberty
People demand freedom only when they have no power. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
freedom lying intelligent
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? Henrik Ibsen
freedom bird want
A forest bird never wants a cage.
freedom truth society
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
freedom bored everyday
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free... Henri Matisse
freedom artist constraints
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
freedom-of-speech way good-things
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. Herodotus