When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisiac Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream. We stand here… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“God never gives guidance for two steps at a time. I must take one step, and then I get light for the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
“In another conversation I said, ‘Tell me the truth. When you were leaving prison after twenty-seven years and walking down that road… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The Statue of Liberty, that frequently malevolent bitch, has an enormous tumor in her gut that has spread to her brain and… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Being part of the E.U. in Poland means that for the first time in a millennium, nobody disputes Poland's borders, and it… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was… — Common Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, Controllers usually see themselves as self-reliant even while they are dependent upon others to maintain their backwards connections and their fragile… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“There are very few choices in the life of Childfree people that can’t be undone or changed. Take your best shot at… — Jay Zigmont Copy Share Image
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
“A wanderer with no ideal, no sense of gratitude for his independence, is no more than a beggar! The difference between a… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“The Masonic philosophy embodied the political movement under way in America to promote individual liberty and establish a broad-based national identity that… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
With 'Mirzya,' we went deep into folk music. The film, unfortunately, did not do well because it was not marketed well. But… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
“Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“The view of Central America as a region to be kept "safe" for American corporations was naturally not shared by all the… — Stephen Schlesinger Copy Share Image
“Many of us wanted something more fundamental: freedom from "normal" life. Either we were inherently different, possibly on a cellular lever, and… — aiden shaw Copy Share Image
Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A lot of bands make two different music videos for their latest songs. A censored version for American TV, and an uncensored… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Still, as a straight person, you might say, "This just isn't my fight." No, it isn't. Unless you care about the kind… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“For Delta blueman Robert Johnson and his contemporaries, the train was the eternal metaphor for the travelling life, and it still holds… — Patrick O'Neil Copy Share Image
A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
“Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his… — Horace Copy Share Image
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image