Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice…~ Joseph L. Blau Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.~ Alan Bloom A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.~ Leon Blum What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes. In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal and state grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order.~ Samuel L. Blumenfeld Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.~ David Boaz Whose service is perfect freedom.~ Book of Common Prayer The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.~ James Bovard The cause of freedom is the cause of God.~ William Lisle Bowles Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.~ Tom Braun Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.~ Kingman Brewster I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.~ Ashleigh Brilliant . . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.~ Henry Brooke As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence.~ Jerry Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense.~ Norman O. Brown The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.~ Harry Browne A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry Browne Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print