Quotes About Freedom

Still, the intensive form of power provides more freedom than the extensive, because those who have it depend on no particular master, or particular position of power, for their security.

The key in life is to always be willing to walk away.

There is nothing worse than feeling dependent on other people. Dependency makes you vulnerable to all kinds of emotions—betrayal, disappointment, frustration—that play havoc with your mental balance.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. [ West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624 (1943)]

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Travel is sold as freedom, but we were about as free as lab rats. This is how they'll manage the next Holocaust, I thought, as I shuffled forward in my stockinged feet: they'll simply issue us with air tickets and we'll do whatever we're told

but we must be careful not to do our enemies' work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator—what logic is this? We

I did not have long to enjoy my freedom in tranquillity. My modest plans, like everyone else's, were about to be mocked by the immensity of events. As Plautus has it: Whatever the mind may hope for The future is in the hands of the gods.

unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone.

we must be careful not to do our enemies' work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator – what logic is this?

Com'è strano, pensò più tardi March, vivere la tua vita nell'ignoranza del passato, del tuo mondo, di te stesso. Eppure era così facile! Tiravi avanti giorno per giorno, seguendo il percorso che altri avevano tracciato per te, senza alzare mai la testa...sempre avvolto nella loro logica...dalla culla alla tomba. Era una sorta di paura. Bene, addio a tutto. Era una bella cosa lasciarselo alle spalle...qualunque cosa dovesse accadere adesso.

To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator – what logic is this?

I doubt they'd kill me. And if they did—well, what does it matter? I'm old, and there could be no better death than in defence of freedom.

He remembered a line of graffiti scrawled by White Rose on a wall near Werderscher Markt: 'A police state is a country run by criminals'.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Men are not potatoes!

I know that I am free because I alone am responsible for everything that I do.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible.

Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Your Redeemer is bigger than your past.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---