Freedom Quote by Alan Keyes Download Open image “Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.” — Alan Keyes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Liberty People Tired Tyrants
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
God's irony, that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century… — Alan Keyes Copy Share
I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this… — Alan Keyes Copy Share
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be… — James Baldwin Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
