Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 137
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.
Wendy McElroy
The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
Abbie Hoffman
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
Cornelia Parker
Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.
Gerald R. Ford
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
Andrew Jackson
Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.
Paul Robeson
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Walter Winchell
Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing
Shenhui
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck
