I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.
It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.
You can only be free if I am free.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
All you have to do is say "yes. " Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out of it. Just say "yes. " You don't even know what it means to say "yes," but you say it anyway. You'll never know what it means to say "yes," but you do it anyway. Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.
The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.
To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.
I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire' in French, and 'Vrijheid' in Flemish. . . the Victory which will give us back our freedom, the Victory of our good friends the English. Their word for Victory also begins with V. As you see, things fit all round.
You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.
