Quotes on Freedom

Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

The secret of freedom, courage.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.