Quotes About Freedom

That dreadful consciousness of a narrow and limiting I-hood which dogs our search for freedom and full life, is done away. For a moment, at least, the independent spiritual life is achieved. The contemplative is merged in it "like a bird in the air, like a fish in the sea": loses to find and dies to live.

Can we not see that without God, government always steps in to fill the vacuum and where there is more government there is always less freedom?

History has taught us time and again that political power always raises its angry fist when timeless principles are lost. We know that without the scale of self-evident truths grounded in the laws of nature and nature's God, every culture eventually finds itself subject to the rule of the gang or the tyranny of the individual. Recognizing this, scholars of all ages have confidently given their hearts and minds to the words, You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Restrict high capacity magazines and clips and we say "over my dead body." Restrict the Body of Christ and we say little to nothing.

The classical liberal is someone who stands for freedom, for liberty and for liberation. What we see today within the American academy is the shutting down of ideas. We see ideological fascism rather than academic freedom. The conservative voice is actually more classically liberal because we're arguing for an open, robust exchange of ideas. Why? Because we can trust truth to judge the debate rather than politics or power."

We seem to be ready to go to war at the loss of our right to own a gun but yet we sit back quietly at the loss of our right to worship our God as we see fit.

gli uomini vivevano in stato di libertà, cioè nello stato degli animali, delle scimmie, del bestiame?

La sfera politica e del potere deve essere, per la sua stessa natura e funzione, libera da condizionamenti economici. Potrebbe venire ricordata opportunamente la frase di Siila, il quale disse non essere, la sua ambizione, possedere vasellame d'oro, ma avere il potere su coloro che lo posseggono.

Choose your own way. Do not follow me, or anyone else.

Vai, amico, libero da fardelli e paure (Go forward, friend, unburdened and unafraid). Requiescant in pace (Rest in peace).

Experiencing, rather than trying to have special experiences, is where real freedom lies.

your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.

It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana...and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for your salvation.

I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seem To mock me now, all night, all night, and Have I strayed among the cliffs here They say, some day I'll fall Down through the sea-bit fissures, and no more Know the warm cloak of sun, or bathe The dew across my tired eyes to comfort them. They try to keep me hid within four walls. I will not stay!

The immense and undeniable loss of freedoms, as they were in 1900, is undeniable. We have seen the acceleration in efficiency of the tyrannizing factors. It's enough to keep a man worried. Wars are made to make debt. I suppose there's a possible out in space satellites and other ways of making debt.

yr/ humanity counterfeit yr/ liberty cankered with simulation

A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.

2 young ladies to sing us the new liberty song readiness to be shot / versus / taxes

Esclavo es aquel que espera por alguien que venga y lo libere

You are a fool to read classics because you are told to and not because you like them.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.