Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 8

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
 Abbie Hoffman
Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.
 Iain Benson
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.
 Pyotr Chaadayev
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner sovereignty, inner independence, inner freedom. And inner strength to attain the absolute.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
 Joseph de Maistre
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
 John Dryden
There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.
 Samuel Adams
A fool is very dangerous when in power.
 Denis Fonvizin
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us
 Jonathan Mayhew
The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...
 David Foster
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
 Jessie Sampter
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
 Henry James
Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.
 Louis Chevrolet