Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 135

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.
 Anne Roe
You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.
We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
 John Quincy Adams
July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.
 Adam C. Engst
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
 Charles Evans Hughes
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
 James F. Cooper
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.
 Epicurus
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
 Chris Patten
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
 Michael Bloomberg
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
 Alan Lomax
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.
Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.
The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.
 Rudolph Rummel