Quotes by Freedom Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher. Alex Comfort liberty freedom want My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once. Alex Kozinski failure freedom mistake A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. Alexander Fraser Tytler democracies-have freedom government [H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties. Alexander Hamilton sacrifice freedom country We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Alexander Hamilton freedom government real Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures. Alexander Hamilton giving-up freedom struggle The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie. Alexander Herzen freedom lying people A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body. Alexander Lowen freedom life moving I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak. Alexander Scriabin freedom god life 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 freedom real country There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville equality freedom america America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing. Alexis de Tocqueville freedom country america In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. Alexis de Tocqueville freedom writing america Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier. Alexis de Tocqueville freedom ties strong Of old sat Freedom on the heights Alfred Lord Tennyson freedom light feet Red of the Dawn Alfred Lord Tennyson red freedom dawn And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. Alfred Lord Tennyson mets freedom hands The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself. Alice Neel freedom For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. Alice Walker freedom lonely fear allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves. Alice Walker allowing freedom «1234567891011»