Freedom Quotes - Page 26

• Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Advantage, Treated

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• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

  George Washington

  Sweet, Retirement, Heart

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.337

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• Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

  Augustus William Hare

  Names, Law, Opposites

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.38

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• Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.

  Federico Zuccari

  Artist, Mind, Purpose

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• The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Blessing, Discipline, Democracy

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”

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• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Effort, Littles

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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• I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Wish, Modification

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

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• Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

  John Adams

  Education, Knowledge, Unnecessary War

  'A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law' (1765)

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• There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

  Walter Cronkite

  4th Of July, Littles, Journalism

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• This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Softball, Wisdom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1961). “Faust: part one and sections from part two”

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• He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Dream

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1978). “Goethe's Faust: An abridged version”

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, War, Civilization

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Liberty, Dirt

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.50, Jester House Publishing

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• Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Political, Democracy

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ignorance, Majority Rule, Democracies Have

  "Notes On Journalism". Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1926.

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• There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

  William E. Gladstone

  Loyalty, Order, Ideas

  1879 Speech, West Calder, 27 Nov.

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• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Believe, Feet, Knees

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• Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tyrants, Mind, Democracy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

  David Lloyd George

  Liberty, Privilege, Habit

  Speech in the House of Commons, May 10, 1928.

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• England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

  Lydia M. Child

  Land, Water, Mountain

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Ubuntu, Baths

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• The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Law, Literature

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Able, Doe, Delight

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Flower, Roots

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• The principal fact of life is the free mind.

  Joyce Cary

  Mind, Facts, Life Is

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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