Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 89
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
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
Alain LeRoy Locke
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Felix Adler
Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.
John D. Arnold
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Jose Marti
You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!
Laurie Halse Anderson
I accept your condemnation," I said.
Gabrielle Zevin
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Chris Patten
Every virtuous man is free.
Philo
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
Peter Kreeft