Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 84

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
 Arnold J. Toynbee
No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.
 James K. Polk
[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.
 Jack Parsons
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Peace is its own reward.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
 Thomas Aquinas
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
 Geronimo
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
 Andrei Sakharov
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it
 William Wallace
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
 Charles Kingsley
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
 Coretta Scott King
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.
 John Owen
I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.