Liberty Quotes
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."
"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."
"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
"But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths."
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
"You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state."
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
"It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
"The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it."
"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room -- room for the human mind."
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government"
Spurious quote attributed to George Washington but never said by him .
"I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation."
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
"I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit."
"... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!"
"Liberty a word without which all other words are vain."
"If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny."
"A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…"
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."
"No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host."
"The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power."
"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be."
"Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it is filtered to society vis-à-vis America’s major institutions . . . particularly the educational system; ultimately, shaping the very essence of life."
"Enlightenment is the key to empowerment."
"It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us."
"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."
"Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!"
"Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them."
"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."
"So free we seem so fettered fast we are!"
"The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants."
"Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die."
"First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all."
"Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater."
"As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized."
"In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others."
"Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders."
"SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us."
"We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction."
"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost."
"Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through."
"If you find God, you shall be free forever."
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