Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1281-1300] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.~ Daniel Webster The man is free who is protected from injury.~ Daniel Webster God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.~ Daniel Webster But what is tyranny? Or how can a free people be deprived of their liberties? Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.~ Noah Webster Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.~ Noah Webster Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. Wedgwood In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.~ Andrew Weil, MD The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security.~ Robert Welch I want for our country enough laws to restrain me from injuring others, so that these laws will also restrain others from injuring me. I want enough government, with enough constitutional safeguards, so that this necessary minimum of laws will be applied equitably to everybody, and will be binding on the rulers as well as those ruled. Beyond that I want neither laws nor government to be imposed on our people as a means or with the excuse of protecting us from catching cold, or of seeing that we raise the right kind of crops, or of forcing us to live in the right kind of houses or neighborhoods, or of compelling us to save money or to spend it, or of telling us when or whether we can pray. I do not want government or laws designed for any other form of welfarism or paternalism, based on the premise that government knows best and can run our lives better than we can run them ourselves. And my concept of freedom, and of its overwhelming importance, is implicit in these aspirations and ideals.~ Robert Welch When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.~ Brian S. Wesbury When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.~ Mae West There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.~ Rebecca West Freedom of communication means, clearly and unquestionably, freedom to speak, debate, and write in privacy; to share confidence with intimates and confidants, and to prepare positions in groups and institutions for presentation to the public at a later point.~ Alan Westin We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.~ Benjamin Whichcote Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.~ E. B. White Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.~ William Allen White The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.~ Walt Whitman Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!~ John Greenleaf Whittier The nations lift their right hands up and swear Their oath of freedom.~ John Greenleaf Whittier The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs." ~ John Greenleaf Whittier Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print