Quotes About Freedom

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

To change masters is not to be free.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Democracy is the best revenge.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

Being free is a state of mind.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.