Quotations by Subject
Freedom Page 8 of 15
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Pleasure is only the negative of pain, and pain is the positive element in life. ...The satisfaction of the will consists in nothing else than that it meets with no resistance. ... that which checks or arrests the will (pain, frustrated aims) is something positive; it proclaims its own presence. All pleasure consists in merely removing this check-- in other words, in freeing us from its action; and hence pleasure is a state which can never last v... |
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Poverty curtails individual freedom. So do illiteracy, prejudice, lack of education, inability to obtain the basic needs of life. |
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Relaxation frees the heart. |
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Remember that prosperity can only be for the free, and that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. |
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Self control and freedom are incompatible with weakness. |
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Send these, the homeless, tempest toss'd, to me |
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Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. |
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. |
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So often, he who is impatient to become his own master, when the outward checks are removed, merely becomes his own slave." |
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Systems political or religious or racial or national-- will not respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do. |
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. |
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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant. the active, the brave. |
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. |
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. |
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The defense of freedom is finally grounded in an appreciation of its value, No government, no foreign policy is more important to the defense of freedom than are the writers, teachers, communication specialists, researchers-- whose responsibility it is to document, illustrate and explain the human consequences of freedom and unfreedom. |
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The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army. It is possible to give commands in such a manner as to inspire an intense desire to obey; while the opposite manner cannot fail to excite strong resentment and a desire to disobey." |
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The entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions. If they can accept this totally, then they become free people. To the extent that they do not accept this, they will forever feel themselves victims. |
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The free exercise of any power, whatever it may be, is happiness. |
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The free man who lives among those who are ignorant strives as much as possible to avoid their favors. |
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. |
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