Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 96

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
 William E. Simon
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
 George Berkeley
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.
 Lord Kelvin
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.
 Edward Teller
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
 Barbara Jordan
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
 Wendell Phillips
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.
 Bruce Bartlett
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.
 Peyton C. March
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
 Julian Bond
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.
 Katherine Anne Porter
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
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There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
 Alan K. Simpson
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.