freedom

freedom

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. A Room Of One's Own
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 1984
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
Freedom lies in being bold.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free. Eleven Minutes
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
Dare to think for yourself.
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. The Age of Louis XIV
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Il est bien malais&eacute; ... d'&ocirc;ter &agrave; des insens&eacute;s des cha&icirc;nes qu'ils r&eacute;v&egrave;rent. (<em>It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.</em>) Le Dner Du Comte de Boulainvilliers. Par Mr. St. Hiacinte
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Elective Affinities
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
Laws are silent in times of war.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. The Essential Gandhi
Nobody who says, &lsquo;I told you so&rsquo; has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.