Quotes about Freedom
When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No-body will be argued into slavery.
— Edmund Burke
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.
— Edmund Burke
The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
— Edmund Burke
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.
— Edmund Burke
The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are both to be reckoned among their rights.
— Edmund Burke
Such sanguine declarations tend to lull authority asleep,—to encourage it rashly to engage in perilous adventures of untried policy,—to neglect those provisions, preparations, and precautions which distinguish benevolence from imbecility, and without which no man can answer for the salutary effect of any abstract plan of government or of freedom. For want of these, they have seen the medicine of the state corrupted into its poison.
— Edmund Burke
Shame can be removed, and you can still be you. Despite your feeling that your destiny and shame's destiny are identical—that if shame no longer exists, you won't either—the reality is that you will be more you without shame.
— Edward Welch
Imagine having drug cravings subdued by the joy of knowing and obeying Christ. Imagine having temptations lose their allure because there is more pleasure in walking humbly with our God. Imagine waking up and strategizing how to please the God who loves you rather than where you will get your next drink. This would be freedom. Sound impossible? It isn't.
— Edward Welch
With rebellion, awareness is born.
— Albert Camus
Having money is a way of being free of money.
— Albert Camus
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
— Albert Camus
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
— Albert Camus