Quotes About Freedom

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers a man's mind in a narrow field.

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.

I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never—never—never! You cannot conquer America.

I invoke the genius of the Constitution.

I love the Americans because they love liberty, and I love them for the noble efforts they made in the last war.

Like so many American tales, On the Road is about escape, about lighting out for the perpetually receding territory ahead.

As was said by Thomas Jefferson, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

One of the many insights of Carl Rogers was that when people feel unacceptable they are immobilized, unable to change. It is, paradoxically, when people experience acceptance that they are freed to change.

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

Smith argued that two conditions were necessary for labor to produce the maximum amount of wealth: perfect competition among sellers—everyone pursuing his or her selfish interest, the famous "invisible hand"—and the complete freedom of buyers to substitute one commodity for another.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible