222 quotes found
“Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.”
“The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.”
“I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.”
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer suffi...”
“Liberty is always unfinished business.”
“Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”
“So free we seem so fettered fast we are!”
“A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.”
“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.”
“All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'”
“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God ...”
“Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.”
“Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in ...”
“Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.”
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now deserves the love an...”
“Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.”
“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.”
“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
“The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.”
“The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.”
