True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.
Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 127
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
Abraham Maslow
Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.
Arlo Guthrie
[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.
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.
Augustus William Hare
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything
Beverly LaHaye
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.
J. Norman Collie
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.
Gregory of Nyssa
The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.
Robert Pollack
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Loren Eiseley
We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.
Richard M. Nixon
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
