Top Freedom Quotes

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypo...

Freedom Definition

(n.) The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

(n.) Privileges; franchises; immunities.

(n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.

(n.) Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.

(n.) Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

(n.) Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

(n.) Generosity; liberality.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, as...

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what...

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily transmitte to itself, or rather, to the very person who is thinking it; and that is why - because i...

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from governm...

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.

The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the hea...

What do we free spirits want? We just want to think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. Why should that be a problem for anyone else?

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou...

It takes a heck of a lot of courage to stay true to yourself when the world has forgotten it's way.