Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 69
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
James Boswell
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.
If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.
Chaka Khan
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
Rowan Williams
...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
William Shenstone
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Harriet Tubman
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
