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"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
“What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“all communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community, require time to mature them for execution. An army, so large as seriously to menace those liberties, could only be formed by progressive augmentations; which would suppose, not merely a temporary combination between the legislature and executive, but a continued conspiracy for a series of time.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against the encroachments of power. This then is a right of the utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“No African has ever voluntarily emigrated to the shores of the New World; whence it must be inferred, that all the blacks who are now to be found in that hemisphere are either slaves or freedmen.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“A depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
Quote by -Wendell Berry
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
Quote by -Will Durant
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
Quote by -Will Durant
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Quote by -William Faulkner
There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!
Quote by -William Godwin
Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry; consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will admit, be exempted from restraint.
Quote by -William Godwin
If we're living in a free country,we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else?
Quote by -Woody Harrelson
There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.
Quote by -Virginia Satir
Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
Quote by -Ted Nugent
Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.
Quote by -Terry Goodkind
Liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.
Quote by -Tommy Lee
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.
Quote by -Toni Morrison
When I speak about freedom, it's about freedom of the spirit. Freedom of the spirit can't be represented by a body. It has to be art. It has to be all the colors. It has to be something that moves and has no boundaries.
Quote by -Salma Hayek
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Quote by -Salman Rushdie
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
Quote by -Sri Aurobindo
I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me.
Quote by -Rihanna
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Quote by -John Adams
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Quote by -John Adams