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Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.
I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.