Freedom Quotes - Page 25

• Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

  James Madison

  Gun, Government, People

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• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Real, America

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.337

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• No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Limits, Spirit

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

  Indira Gandhi

  Inspirational, Women, Empowering

  "The Embattled Woman Who Relishes Crosswords, Children...and Running India". People Magazine, June 30, 1975.

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• No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
  That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

  William Cowper

  Slave, Charm, Thousand

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 260

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• Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

  T. S. Eliot

  Pain, Liberty, Different

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Men, President, Liberty

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• Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Way, Secure

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

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• Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

  William James

  Age, Understood, Identical

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

  David Lloyd George

  Liberty, Restraint, Frontiers

  International Liberal Conference, July 1928.

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• The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Political, Greek, Democracy

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Fruit

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• Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Real, Exercise, Government

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt, translated by Joseph Coulthard. Chapter 1, 1854.

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• Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

  Mark Twain

  Champion, Liberty, Irreverence

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.405, Courier Corporation

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• Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Justice, Liberty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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• To freemen, threats are impotent.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Threat, Freeman

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• An artist must not feel under any constraint.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Feels, Constraints

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• A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

  Francis Picabia

  Free Spirit, Liberty, Spirit

  "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.

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• An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Genius, Dare

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• What you have to do is break all the rules.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Break

  "Still Sovereign of His Own Art World" by Ralph Blumenthal, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 1997.

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• To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Mean, Borrowed, Oneself

  "The other face. To be". Book by Theo van Doesburg, Vol. XIIII, 75-6, p. 64, 1926.

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• I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics.

  Janet Fish

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.

  Federico Zuccari

  Artist, Mind, Purpose

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• Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Advantage, Treated

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• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

  George Washington

  Sweet, Retirement, Heart

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.337

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