- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
- Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
- We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
- Only the educated are free.
- In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
- Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
- While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
- People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Thalia (in ancient Greek Θάλεια / Tháleia or Θάλια / Thália, "the joyous, the flourishing", from θάλλειν / thállein, to flourish, to be verdant) was the muse who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry. She was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses. She was portrayed as a young woman with a joyous air, crowned with ivy, wearing boots and holding a comic mask in her hand.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Freedom Quotes
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