Quotes About Freedom

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

Power is the ability to afford not to learn.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.