Quotes about freedom
freedom given organize
You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them. Julian Schnabel
freedom men humanity
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Orson Scott Card
freedoms males owned people
You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded. John Trudell
freedoms future interpret issue laws partisan pose ways
This is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of all Americans so that future administrations do not interpret our laws in ways that pose constitutional concerns. David Keene
freedom ground price sacred truly visible
This is sacred ground today. The price of freedom is truly visible here today. Jack Clark
freedom stop
This is something we'll stop and do for you so that you can have the same freedom that we have.
freedom law democracies-have
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. Thomas Jefferson
freedom government interesting
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all. Thomas Jefferson
freedom men mind
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds. Thomas Jefferson
freedom blessing government
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
freedom war patriotic
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. Thomas Jefferson
freedom rights people
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. Thomas Jefferson
freedom democracies-have government
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Thomas Jefferson
freedom order practice
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. Thomas Jefferson
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! Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
freedom 4th-of-july government
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson
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 Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
freedom patriotic government
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Thomas Jefferson
freedom media liberty
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson
freedom-of-the-press security presses
The only security of all is in a free press. Thomas Jefferson
freedom 4th-of-july men
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Thomas Jefferson
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. Thomas Jefferson
freedom government liberty
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson
freedom rights sacred
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights Thomas Jefferson