I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 69
The man is free who is protected from injury.
Daniel Webster
Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.
Neil Young
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Marsilio Ficino
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
Donna Brazile
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.
Audre Lorde
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
Zero Mostel
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
Andrei Sakharov
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
Closed doors are a test of our faith. Keep moving forward, being your best, living with determination and faith. When you do, you'll see amazing changes all around you.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.