Quotes About Freedom

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

that democracy works and will always work, because the people are allowed to think, to talk, and keep their minds free, open, and supple.

Efforts to silence the people who raised their voice – whether through violence, intimidation or the courts – meant that three decades after the Rushdie affair there was almost no one in Europe who would dare write a novel, compose a piece of music or even draw an image that might risk Muslim anger. Indeed, they ran in the other direction. Politicians and almost everybody else went out of their way to show how much they admired Islam.

If free countries have to have unsightly security controls, why don't they have them around the national borders rather than around every single thing inside those borders?'8

Como sabe cualquiera que haya vivido bajo un régimen totalitario, hay algo humillante y hasta autodestructivo en tener que marchar al son de consignas que uno no cree ni puede creer.

Allowing people to live their lives the way they wish is an idea which reveals some of the most cherished attainments of our societies – attainments which are still disturbingly rare worldwide.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

We are currently living under a form of government that our Constitution was explicitly designed to prevent.

under the Levitical administration the people of God lived in servitude—and it was a yoke that was impossible for them to bear (Acts 15:10). The people of God under the New Covenant are free—they have come into their promised inheritance. Although we have not received it fully (not having seen the redemption of the body), we have received enough of it to be free.

We have a great array of choices before us, and it is our glory to choose between them. But there is one choice we do not have, and that is the choice to be the author of the story.

Love dictates that you refrain from waving something obnoxious under the nose of a brother with scruples about it. Christ died for him, so you may not do that (Rom. 14:15). At the same time, we need to reject, and reject with godly vehemence, every attempt to bind the consciences of the saints with regard to what they may eat (Col. 2:20–23). We defer to the weaker brothers at lunch, which is not the same thing as letting them teach on this.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Freedom of mind is the Real Freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains is a Slave, not a Free Man.

Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except the destruction of the caste system.

Our is a battle; not for wealth, nor for power. Ours is battle; for freedom; for reclamation of human personality.

So long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought.

Being frees you from core lies and gives you the strength to walk through your pain.

3 Una mente "aprisionada" no es libre porque está poseída, o refrenada, por sí misma.

Crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people.

Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers! (Noli Me Tangere)

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves. (El Filibusterismo)

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self.