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The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married...
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me.
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.
Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.
There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.
Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.