Freedom Quotes - Page 39

• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.

  Russell Cornell Leffingwell

  Children, Honesty, Men

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• Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Psychology, Promise

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• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

  Otto Hermann Kahn

  Brother, Past, Hands

  Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”

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• They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

  Eugene V. Debs

  War, Self, Class

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• The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive.

  David Bornstein

  Thinking, People, Half

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

  Rumi

  Wings, Two, Ties

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• It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Men, Rights

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.350, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Civilization, Principles

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, War, Etc

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• Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.

  Giannina Braschi

  Fire, Clouds, Nerves

  "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

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• Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

  George W. Bush

  Hopeful, Allies, Hats

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Sky, Secret, Half

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• He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
  And all are slaves besides.

  William Cowper

  Slave, Freeman

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.193

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• A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Equality, Doe, Dignity

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, p. 79, 1960.

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• Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Balance, Doe, Belief

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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• Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Humanity, Independence

  Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.202

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• How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Stars, Light, Black

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Perseverance, Character, Government

  Address at the University of Washington's 100th Anniversary Program, November 16, 1961.

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• For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

  John F. Kennedy

  Risk, Faces, Surrender

  Address at the University of Washington's 100th Anniversary Program, www.jfklibrary.org. November 16, 1961.

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• While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.727, Best Books on

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• All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

  John F. Kennedy

  Integrity, Law, Liberty

  Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi, September 30, 1962.

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• Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

  John F. Kennedy

  Goal, Victory, Cuban Missile Crisis

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Defense, Pursuit, Abandon

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.18, Best Books on

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• The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Responsibility, Essence

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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