Quotes About Freedom

the nations that have thrived have been those, like America, that are most comfortable with the cacophony, and even occasional messiness, that come from robust discourse

Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability.

When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block: life is fun.

A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

the freedom to call something into being which did not exist before, which was not given even as an object of cognition or imagination and which therefore, strictly speaking, could not be known.

D?vod vytvo?ení tolika trestných ?in? je stejný, jako vždy byl u všech diktatur: pot?eba udržovat ob?any ve strachu a nev?domosti, co sm?jí a co nesm?jí, a možnost trestat kohokoli kdykoli za cokoli.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

But the price of freedom is blood, toil and tears. This consolation I have, however, that Africa never forgets. And these martyrs of freedom, these young and budding women, will be remembered and honoured when Africa comes into her own.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it; and where the habit of resisting such encroachment is not fostered, and the individual is not taught to be jealous of his rights, individuality gradually disappears and the government or State becomes the all-in-all.

If the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

Living rooms are arranged around the TV, but when you take away the box you have the freedom to arrange the room to suit yourself.

Benjamin Zephaniah

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Freedom is defended by the ballot box and not by the Division Lobby. If the Liberal Party now says that freedom rests in Parliament instead of seeing itself as the guardian of freedom outside Parliament, no wonder it is a tiny minority.