What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?
Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 126
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
Herbert Spencer
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.
Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.
Susanna Kearsley
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert H. Jackson
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Kris Kristofferson
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
Henrik Ibsen
Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwater
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant
Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.
Francois Hollande
The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.
Joseph Fouche
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
Donald T. Regan
