Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [301-320] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.~ Ram Dass The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it ... This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.~ Elmer Davis This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error; that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas, the sounder ideas will in the long run win out.~ Elmer Davis ...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.~ Voltairine de Cleyre Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,” and they will define freedom out of existence.~ Voltairine de Cleyre A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.~ Bertrand de Jouvenel It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.~ Etienne de la Boétie Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.~ Étienne de la Boétie Void of freedom, what would virtue be?~ Alphonse de Lamartine He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.~ Salvador de Madariaga He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.~ Salvador De Madariaga A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.~ Michel De Montaigne Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.~ Charles de Montesquieu Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.~ Vittorio de Sica The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.~ Alexis de Tocqueville The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.~ Alexis de Tocqueville After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.~ Alexis de Tocqueville ... liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.~ Alexis de Tocqueville 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.~ Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.~ Alexis de Tocqueville Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print