Quotes About Freedom

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.

In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.

Owe no man anything.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.