Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.~ Edmund Burke The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.~ Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.~ Edmund Burke The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.~ Edmund Burke After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.~ William S. Burroughs Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.~ William S. Burroughs Do what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.~ George Herbert Walker Bush He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.~ Samuel Butler I wish men to be free, as much from mobs as kings,—from you as me.~ Lord Byron Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.~ Lord Byron Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.~ Lord Byron Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?~ Lord Byron Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?~ Lord Byron For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.~ Lord Byron Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.~ Lord Byron I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.~ John Cage Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print