Quotes about freedom
freedoms government objective reasonable taking
We do not want government interfering in our lives, taking away reasonable freedoms with no good, objective reason to do so. Dick Smith
freedom fate rights
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people. Jimmy Carter
freedom law environmental-quality
I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.
freedom struggle rights
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.
freedom opportunity rights
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life...
freedom law men
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. Henry David Thoreau
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
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 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 democracy able
Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy. John Dos Passos
freedom order needs
In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours. John O'Donohue
freedom-of-speech sound economics
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. John Mortimer
freedom giving liberty
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton
freedom distance thinking
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them. John Desmond Bernal
freedom expression speech
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. Jimmy Wales
freedom men dust
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
freedom political greek
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
freedom mean aimlessness
Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure. Garrison Keillor