Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 139

Freedom can\'t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
We are free to yield to truth.
All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.
 Frances Trollope
An old American patriot described today’s situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
 John F. Kerry
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free.
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
 Gerrit Smith
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
 Ai Weiwei
Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.
 Lysander Spooner
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
 Jawaharlal Nehru
As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
 Bertolt Brecht
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
 Thomas B. Macaulay
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
 Ajahn Brahm
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
 James F. Cooper
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
 Alphonse de Lamartine