Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Shelby Steele

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Lee Kuan Yew

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Lady Bird Johnson

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Neil McDonald

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.

Stephen Covey

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Stephen Covey

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Viktor E. Frankl

No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

Viktor E. Frankl

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Utah Phillips

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

Soren Kierkegaard

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

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Marcus Aurelius

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marc Chagall

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Thomas a Kempis

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Sharon Creech

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Neil Peart

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

Swami Vivekananda

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

Swami Vivekananda

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Tony Abbott

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

Thurgood Marshall

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

Thurgood Marshall

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Robert A. Heinlein

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Robert A. Heinlein

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Robert A. Heinlein

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Richard Cobden

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.