Quotes About Freedom

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

If I was a part of secret ninja group my power would be the power of apology. I would just apologize emphatically and freely. And my mech might just be a phone to send apologetic emails from.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

You have the power to let power go

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

I live in a world that's free, colorful, vibrant, takes chances, bold, stands up to power, umm, and that's where I've mad my success.