Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I steadfastly maintain that only with the complete, irrevocable rejection of God and the supernatural will humankind truly begin to live. Rather than producing a feeling of despair, the decision to embrace atheism should result in an exhilarating, almost intoxicating sense of freedom, something akin to the experience of those American slaves who rejoiced upon hearing news of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Only the atheist is truly free.~ John J. Dunphy 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. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.~ Will Durant In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.~ Will Durant Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?~ Jimmy Durante The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.~ Friedrich Durrenmatt ‘Balanced’ is a code for ‘denied’: a right to free speech that must be ‘balanced’ against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right that can be exercised only when those in power judge that the speech in question is innocuous to them.~ Ronald Dworkin The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.~ Max Eastman History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.~ Abba Eban If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.~ Thomas A. Edison That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.~ Barbara Ehrenreich Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert Einstein Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.~ Albert Einstein All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.~ Albert Einstein As the circle of knowledge expands, so does the Sphere of darkness that encompasses it.~ Albert Einstein Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.~ Albert Einstein How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.~ Albert Einstein Free is not the same as free and easy.~ Larry Eisenberg Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed—else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print