Quotes about free
freedom blessing support
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it. Thomas Paine
freedom equality men
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. Thomas Paine
freedom men likes
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. Thomas Huxley
freedom people decision
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect. Thomas Sowell
freedom law black
We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it. Thomas Sowell
freedom men law
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. Robert Kennedy
freedom practice goal
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society. Robert Kennedy
freedom mean liberty
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. Robert Kennedy
freedom winning way
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time. Richard M. Nixon
freedom-of-speech speech useless
Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought. Spiro T. Agnew
freedom spirit ends
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit. Sri Aurobindo
freedom soul firsts
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom. Sri Aurobindo
freedom men liberty
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. Ruth Benedict
freedom choices tasks
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses. Thomas Merton
freedom two light
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. Thomas Carlyle
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. Thomas B. Macaulay
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. Thomas B. Macaulay
freedom law libertarian
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money. Thomas Hobbes
freedom party fundamentals
Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet. Tim Berners-Lee
freedom mean political
It's time to recognise the Internet as a basic human right, that means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring Internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of Web users regardless of where they live. Tim Berners-Lee
freedom liberty facts
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty. Thomas Jefferson
freedom women needs
Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe? Thomas Campion
freedom liberty wells
O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? Thomas Bailey Aldrich
freedom men worthy
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom. Victor Hugo
freedom kingdoms realizing
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. Vernon Howard
freedom conscious
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. Vernon Howard
freedom numbers walks
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. Vernon Howard
freedom liberty fit
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. Robert Frost
freedom inspiration 4th-of-july
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. Robert Frost
freedom artist government
The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.... Robert Frost
freedom men speech
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press. Robert Frost
freedom leader poetry
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. Robert Frost