Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.more Dalai Lama quotes |
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.more Louis Lamour quotes |
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political
structure, of these United States protects any American from
arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the
Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the
torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a
cellar.more Rose Wilder Lane quotes |
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.more Lao-Tzu quotes |
[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.more Frances Moore Lappé quotes |
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.more Harold J. Laski quotes |
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves.more D. H. Lawrence quotes |
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?more D. H. Lawrence quotes |
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains and always was.more D. H. Lawrence quotes |
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.more Emma Lazarus quotes |
It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.more Richard Henry Lee quotes |
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.more Richard Henry Lee quotes |
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.more Vladimir Ilyich Lenin quotes |
The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.more Pope Leo XIII quotes |
In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.more Max Lerner quotes |
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.more Max Lerner quotes |
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.more C. S. Lewis quotes |
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.more C. S. Lewis quotes |
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America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shephard as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
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Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
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We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from ... the Declaration of Independence ... that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence ... I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
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As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.more Walter Lippmann quotes |
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The American’s conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man’s way of life.more Walter Lippmann quotes |
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.more Walter Lippmann quotes |
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.more Walter Lippmann quotes |
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.more Walter Lippmann quotes |
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right,
the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.more Walter Lippmann quotes |
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.more Walter Lippmann quotes |
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