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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.
Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.