Top 1200 Freedom Liberty Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.

Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.

Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon or eliminate freedom in any way are systems which work against life itself.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.

The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

I've always stood for one thing, and that is having freedom, and part of that is the freedom to unapologetically be yourself.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.

If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.

We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined to achieve an enduring peace - a peace with liberty and with honor. This determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who have fallen in the service of our Nation.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.

My great-great grandmother who came from Norway to America came for economic freedom, but importantly she also came for religious freedom. It is part of my family history, why they came to America: for the freedom to practice their own religion without the government interfering with it.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.