Quotes
Quotes about Freedom
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.
Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.
Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chanceâ just one chanceâto come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want--for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
'Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear The living degradation we may know If we do dread death for a sacred cause?
