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There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Civil Disobedience (1849)In context
- Government
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter III, Part I
- America
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four, Chapter VII.
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XVII.
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom’s self is made to be a slave.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), p. 204
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV.
- America
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XXII.
- War & Peace
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
- Time
The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
- Thinking
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Address at the National Archives dedicating a shrine for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights (15 December 1952)
- Government
- Liberty
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972The Truman Doctrine (1947)
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Address at the National Archives dedicating a shrine for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights (15 December 1952)
- Liberty
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he’d rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Beyers Naudé memorial lecture (15 August 2003)
- God
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Today, NBC TV (9 January 1985)
- Justice