Freedom

[OtherCheek]

Freedom:

Here are a few quotes from a list I have collected over the years.

“Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.” — (GK Chesterton)

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” — (GK Chesterton)

“The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.” — (Winston Churchill)

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.” — (John G. Diefenbaker)

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” --Albert Einstein. — (Howard Eve’s Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988)

“The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.” —( Albert Einstein)

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.” — (Dwight Eisenhower)

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” — (Dwight Eisenhower)

[Faramir]

A few of my favorites:

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

"Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry (though this may be a fictitious quote, it is still a good one).

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature." Benjamin Franklin

"In free governments, the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns. " -- Benjamin Franklin

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." -- Thomas Paine


"Nations grown corrupt
Love bondage more than liberty;
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." -- John Milton

[Conductor42]

"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Licoln