Quotes about freedom
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. James Madison
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 tyrants too-late
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. Emile M. Cioran
freedom long rejection
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
freedom liberty force
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty. Ellen Key
freedom men restraint
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. Epictetus
freedom self liberty
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. Epicurus
freedom names vices
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
freedom democracy weapons
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. Edward Teller
freedom people liberty
People demand freedom only when they have no power. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
freedom lying intelligent
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? Henrik Ibsen
freedom bird want
A forest bird never wants a cage.
freedom truth society
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
freedom bored everyday
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free... Henri Matisse
freedom artist constraints
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
freedom-of-speech way good-things
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. Herodotus
freedom liberty hebrew
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. Heinrich Heine
freedom religion our-time
Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.
freedom obedience true-freedom
True obedience is true freedom. Henry Ward Beecher
freedom bird cages
A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
freedom done said
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it. Henry James
freedom eye people
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
freedom land titles
If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got? Helen Thomas
freedom government history
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
freedom aversion apostles
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
freedom law giving
Only law can give us freedom.
freedom bears levels
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
freedom mean doe
Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.
freedom persistence lasts
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
freedom race democracy
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.