Quotes about free
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 believe power
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
freedom real war
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
freedom animal agency
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
freedom government people
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.
freedom war mean
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
freedom war democracies-have
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
freedom white flags
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. Jimi Hendrix
freedom thinking greatest-fear
I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.... Jim Morrison
free-yourself ifs
If you're going to be free! You're going to have to free YOURSELF! Eric Thomas
freedom soul polls
True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. Emma Goldman
freedom land masters
The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ... Emiliano Zapata
freedom independent men
All men are by nature born equally free and independent. George Mason
freedom blessing government
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue.
freedom men atoms
A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. George MacDonald
freedom men liberty
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
freedom essence slavery
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live. Leo Tolstoy
freedom believe speech
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. Leo McKern
freedom responsibility long
As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative. Leo Buscaglia
freedom responsibility wish
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
freedom government office
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy. Karl Popper
freedom reason plans
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
freedom government democracy
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
free-opinion challenges intellectual
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions.