Quotes About Freedom

After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday's prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.