When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer. — D. J. Enright Copy Share Image
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
But when I say free, I mean free: free from bond, of chain or command:to go where you will, even, even to… — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear… — Noor Iskandar Copy Share Image
Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an elegance of excellence with an endurance of empathy, efficiency and effervescence of self-reliance with self-confidence besides an effective respect… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Duty is an act of obedience stemming from respect, whilst willing desire is an act of freedom. To do something out of… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise… — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
On our beloved nation's Independence Day, I remember and salute the souls that went down for the national pride. Happy 4th of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the point when you can really honest wih with yourself is point where you are free to move forward. — JREYES Copy Share Image
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.” — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before. — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“It is only as they are free, educated, enlightened, that they become a nuisance,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I wanted stability and freedom - or at least I thought I did - and it's paradoxical. — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for ‘security’.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“A free society may be seen to be bent in its entirety on exploring self-improvement” — Frans P.B. Osinga Copy Share Image
“Empowerment means that people have the freedom to act. It also means that they are accountable for results.” — Kenneth H. Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Faith in God's Loving Kindness has truly been attained when both gain and loss bring the same degree of Gratitude.” — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
