Quotes about free
freedom moving men
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Thomas Jefferson
freedom fighting men
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
freedom children father
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
freedom 4th-of-july thinking
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
freedom light ideas
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
freedom war patriotic
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
freedom rights people
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
freedom democracies-have government
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
freedom order practice
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
freedom 4th-of-july patriotic
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
freedom age gone
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
freedom law abuse
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
freedom 4th-of-july government
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
freedom rights hands
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
freedom patriotic equality
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
freedom believe light
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
freedom patriotic government
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
freedom media liberty
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
freedom-of-the-press security presses
The only security of all is in a free press.
freedom 4th-of-july men
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
freedom men liberty
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
freedom government liberty
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
freedom rights sacred
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
freedom judging liberty
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.
freedom work rome
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. Taylor Caldwell
freedom thinking wish
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. Tacitus
free-market
But in the free market system, you're forced to change.
freedom moving journey
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Rollo May
freedom men liberty
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. Soren Kierkegaard
freedom thinking people
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
freedom government order
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom. Thomas B. Macaulay
freedom civilization democracies-have
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
freedom 4th-of-july learning
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.