Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1161-1180] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.~ Herbert Spencer He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.~ Baruch Spinoza The first great struggle for liberty was in the realm of thought. The libertarians reasoned that freedom of thought would be good for mankind; it would promote knowledge, and increased knowledge would advance civilization. But the authoritarians protested that freedom of thought would be dangerous, that people would think wrong, that a few were divinely appointed to think for the people.~ Charles T. Sprading Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare of all. But if it gets out of place, if it gets too big and out of control, it destroys the happiness and even the lives of the people.~ Harold E. Stassen Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.~ Shelby Steele And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system.~ John Steinbeck Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable actions.~ Stendhal They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.~ Casey Stengel My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Freedom rings where opinions clash.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II A hungry man is not a free man.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.~ Justice Potter Stewart The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights... . In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right in property.~ Justice Potter Stewart The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face.~ Justice Potter Stewart This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.~ Justice Joseph Story The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.~ Harriet Beecher Stowe If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.~ William Graham Sumner If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.~ William Graham Sumner Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be.~ Supreme Court of the United States Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print