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Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.
I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.
In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.
Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.