Quotes About Freedom

stay, do so in peace and love. Above all, free yourself from the control of others by making your own choices and recognizing your own boundaries.

After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: "Five years down there, at least. I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

Freedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

You'll find that there's a strange freedom in letting go of your denials and fears. When you're prepared to accept that you are the one who makes things happen in your own life, you stop fearing the unknown and start realizing that you have control over every situation. It's up to you to make this work, which means that you have absolute opportunity to make sure it does.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom.

The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.

Bogus fears can produce real servitude.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

The surest effect of exalting government is to make it easier for some people to drag others down.

The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct.

Democracy unleashes the State in the name of the people.

As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.

The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom.

Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom.

It is impossible to destroy all alleged enemies of freedom everywhere without also destroying freedom in the United States.

The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like a proven angel.