Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [901-920] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.~ John Milton The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.~ John Milton Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.~ John Milton Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.~ Margaret Mitchell Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.~ Richard Mitchell When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.~ Jessica Mitford Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind’s totalization may flounder.~ Thomas Molnar Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.~ James Monroe Discipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.~ Maria Montessori No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence...~ Maria Montessori We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because we are heavily taxed, and only the king's corporations control this Country, together with mob rule, of the special interests.~ James Montgomery [T]he income tax is incompatible with a free society. The IRS routinely intrudes on our basic civil liberties and privacy rights -- and its intrusions are getting worse all the time. I want an America where it is no longer the government's business how much money you make and what you do with it.~ Stephen Moore Better to dwell in freedom's hall, With a cold damp floor and mouldering wall, Than bow the head and bend the knee In the proudest palace of slaverie.~ Thomas Moore If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.~ Samuel Eliot Morison There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.~ Christopher Darlington Morley The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.~ Norval Morris Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment.~ Lance Morrow The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.~ Zero Mostel If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds.~ Bill Moyers We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.~ Charles Alan Murray Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print