Quotes about free
freedom love-is inspire
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness. Plato
freedom democracy glory
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
freedom mean liberty
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. Philip Wylie
freedom ties self
No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free. Philip Larkin
freedom long slides
... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
freedom struggle soul
Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it. Lech Walesa
free-will turns schooling
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto
freedom mind sovereign
Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill
freedom grateful men
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.
freedom military war
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
freedom would-be genius
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
freedom perfect church
No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds. James K. Polk
freedom law wings
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings. James Russell Lowell
freedom men democracies-have
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
freedom feet steps
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
freedom law atheism
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
freedom-of-speech firsts constitution
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment. Larry Flynt
freedom-of-speech speech you-like-it
Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.
freedom justice grace
Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God. Friedrich Durrenmatt
freedom recognition
Freedom is the recognition of necessity. Friedrich Engels
freedom men long
Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends. Friedrich August von Hayek
freedom exercise men
The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.
freedom equality doe
A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
freedom government our-generation
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
freedom balance doe
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
freedom mean individual-effort
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
freedom principles advantage
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
freedom justice mirages
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
freedom differences forbidden
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted. Friedrich Schiller
freedom men born
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
freedom voice libertarian-party
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
freedom
Freedom exists only with power.
freedom errors
Where there is much freedom there is much error.