Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 132
How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.
Eileen Claussen
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson
People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Katharine Anthony
One man with courage is a majority.
How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.
Nikos Kazantzakis
You can't take the sky from me.
Joss Whedon
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
Thomas Nagel
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.
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Denis Diderot
The Constitution under which we live and which has not only blessed us but has become a model for other constitutions, is our God-inspired national safeguard ensuring freedom and liberty, justice and equality before the law.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
And with remembrance of the greater grief
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
