Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1301-1320] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom… What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.~ Tom Wicker The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.~ George Will Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.~ Walter E. Williams Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.~ Wendell L. Willkie Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.~ James Wilson Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.~ Woodrow Wilson I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'~ Woodrow Wilson America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom -- is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.~ Woodrow Wilson Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.~ Woodrow Wilson Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.~ Woodrow Wilson He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who set himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.~ John Witherspoon To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.~ Virginia Woolf Man free, man working for himself, with choice of time, place, and object.~ William Wordsworth Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.~ Wyoming Declaration of Rights Art. I, Sec. 7 You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.~ Malcolm X Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.~ Malcolm X An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.~ Sun Yat-sen The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.~ Frank Zappa Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it... Rise for the flag salute.~ Frank Zappa No nation, ancient or modern, ever lost the liberty of speaking freely, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.~ John Peter Zenger Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print