freedom

"We want those who think slavery wrong to quit voting with those who think it right. They don't treat it as they do other wrongs. They won't oppose it in the free states for it isn't there, nor in the …"

"Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, "Congress shall make no law...abridging t…"

"It is important that the freedom we have attained after a hundred years of struggle should be felt and enjoyed by the millions. Let us therefore model our Swarajya after the conception of Rishis. Let …"

"Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions. But every voluntary association is also free to expel members who use the name of the party to advocate anti-party views.…"

"Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now — to quote myself at my most pretentious — is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant e…"

"There are some of our own people who still think that the Communists are the left wing of the Socialist movement. They are not. The Socialist movement was a movement for freedom in its widest sense. F…"

"Vyshinsky: "You thought you could retain some independence?"

"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."

"The demand for a Constituent Assembly was intrinsically linked to our larger goal of Freedom and Independence. The resolution for Purna Swaraj in 1929 had aroused great nationalist fervour and galvani…"

"People who make excuses for or actively advocate closed-source OSs and network software are not merely harmlessly misguided cultists. They are enemies of liberty – enablers and accomplices before the …"

"Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbi…"

"To be full of things is to be empty of what matters. To be empty of things is to be full of freedom."

"If you don't do something now, this freedom that you built, that you spend your life coding, this freedom will be taken away. Either by those who see you as a threat, who then invoke the system of law…"

"We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom."

"The implicit, or even explicit, offer made by authoritarians is stability in exchange for liberty. High oil prices allowed Putin to keep this bargain for a while, aided by an international community t…"

"The concept of freedom, as the Philosophy of Right has shown, follows the pattern of free ownership. As a result, the history of the world that Hegel looks out upon exalts and enshrines the history of…"

"779. He that marries for wealth sells his liberty."

"The object of liberty is to give men and women a chance to be their best selves. That is its first and last purpose."

"We should not get scared about innovation. It makes us more efficient and frees up capital for our customers to reinvest in other things."

"Like I said before, there are windows of openness in our culture. And then our culture closes those windows down just as fast. And I’ve seen it in my lifetime, time and time again. Right now I’m enjoy…"