It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 128
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.
Julius Evola
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.
Daniel Webster
If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and truth, in maintaining the laws and Constitution of the United States, if need be, for the general good of mankind.
This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.
Fred Thompson
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Archibald MacLeish
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
George Steiner
We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
John Linder
