Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 50
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.
Neil McDonald
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
Amitav Ghosh
I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.
Jerry Falwell
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.
Donald Kennedy
A radical is one who speaks the truth.
Charles August Lindbergh
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.
Doug Stanhope
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
Thomas Hobbes
Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
Andre Malraux
This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
Elizabeth Bowen
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
Walter Bagehot
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
William E. Simon
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch
