Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.~ Robert Browning Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.~ James Bryce I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth – matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.~ James Bryce Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...~ Zbigniew Brzezinski None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.~ Edmund Burke In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.~ Edmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.~ Edmund Burke The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.~ Edmund Burke We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.~ Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.~ Edmund Burke Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.~ Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund Burke To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.~ Edmund Burke All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund Burke Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print