Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maximilien Robespierre

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Max Stirner

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Karl Marx

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Gerald R. Ford

We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

Gerald R. Ford

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. Completely to empty the whole content of the mind-that is real freedom. Freedom is not mere revolt from circumstances, which again breeds other circumstances, other environmental influences, which enslave the mind. We are talking about a freedom that comes naturally, easily, unasked for, when the mind is capable of functioning at its highest level.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom from something is not freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Patrick Henry

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Patrick Henry

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender... The legislature has ceded up to us the privilege of enacting such laws as are not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States... The different states, and even Congress itself, have passed many laws diametrically contrary to the Constitution of the United States...

Joseph Stalin

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Paul Robeson

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

Paul Robeson

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

Paul Robeson

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

Paul Gauguin

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

Patrick McGoohan

I am not a number, I am a free man!

Lillian Hellman

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Lester Maddox

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

Leon Trotsky

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Learned Hand

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Learned Hand

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.