freedom

"If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man t…"

"I see the possibilities of a new kind of painting. With free surfaces, the goal I was always steering towards."

"For, by the logic of Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and by the principles enforced by this nation in its boasted Declaration of Independence, Capt. Brown was a hero, struggling against fearful o…"

"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought."

"The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct."

"Free speech is the right to shout "Theater!" in a crowded fire."

"If you believe in freedom of expression, you have to believe in it for Nazis, Klansmen, pornographers and anybody else you might find to be objectionable..."

"As a liberal I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice."

"The slave-owner is at times visited with a nightmare. He finds that his free will, in spite of its freedom, is thwarted, not by a superior will but by things-in-themselves – by inferior wills, acciden…"

"Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it."

"It is doubtful that democracy could survive in a society organized on the principle of therapy rather than judgment, error rather than sin. If men are free and equal, they must be judged rather than h…"

"The peasants , only a short time free from serfdom, are wretchedly poor. ...The people in that country are about three-fourths illiterate, and the vast majority of the laboring people are peasants. Fl…"

"Étienne de La Boétie: Against Voluntary Servitude – Discourse on the fall of tyrants"

"With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe."

"The First Amendment expresses our Nation’s fundamental commitment to religious liberty by means of two provisions–one protecting the free exercise of religion, the other barring establishment of relig…"

"What we must understand is this: The Vested Property Act is legalized racism and legalized thievery. The fact that the Bangladeshi government has refused to repeal it, let alone compensate the victims…"

"Slight, wiry, his blond, curly hair worn long, Bob Dylan never wears a tie and never lets anyone else make decisions for him. His unshakable independence courses through his songs—some of them wryly i…"

"There are moments when Caterina is Duchampian with the digital medium, as in “UFOp ” and in “Poem in Red” . You can think of Davinio’s work as something resembling the imagination without wires and th…"

"Without the state there would be anarchy for that is, despite all the perfervid ravings of the Marxist Left and statist Right, all that anarchy means—the absence of the state, the opportunity for libe…"

"he very best and most virtuous of all mankind, the agricultural labourers of this land, so favoured by God Almighty, and for so many ages the freest and happiest country in the world!"