Quotes About Freedom

Supongamos que el tema de hoy es la libertad. Entonces, hoy concentra tu atención en la palabra libertad.

The only hope for escaping the traps of the conditioned mind is to use its better nature as a thread,

Who is content simply to be? You too have felt the peace of simply being. Wake up to that, and you will join me in being free.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

The implementation of liberty/freedom, as Robert Hayden, the U.S. poet laureate in the 1970s, put it, has been the "way we journeyed from Can't to Can.

It's symmetrical, left and right, because both the Dems and the GOP, Labour and the Tories, want the government to be really, really big, without regard to free choice, and to follow majoritarian opinion really, really closely, without regard to minorities. We Modern True Liberals stand against them both, opposing the tyranny of the majority on either side of the usual spectrum. Hip, hip, hurray for Smith, Wollstonecraft, Thoreau, Bastiat, Mill and their descendants.

By contrast, human action, to use the "Austrian" economic term, is not merely reactive to constraints and utility functions but active and creative, the exercise of the free and creative and (some of us think) God-given will that can say yes, or no.

But it didn't have the Great Enrichment because it didn't have the ideas flowing from a free people. Ideas, not savings, did it. Liberalism, not empire.

Modern liberals do not sit anywhere along the conventional one-dimensional right-left spectrum of governmental coercion.

What will matter in fifty years in economic history is poverty and its ending, and in political history what will matter is tyranny and its ending. If poverty and tyranny are ended, the rest follows.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.

My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.

The golden anchor beckons, the blue sail rises Like the wing of a dream unfolding to a new day. Let us depart, my muse! Beyond an anxious prow, the sea stretches itself out…

I loved her with all my heart, but if she did not die by Monday morning, I was determined to discover from the pages of my schoolbooks, how to break the chains that bound me to my mother.

One of them told me that the United States Constitution gave Chad Lowe the right to bear arms." Junior paused."I asked him if it gave me the same right. He stopped laughing then, told me to try it and see.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Expression is never helped by suppression.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.