If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.
Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn't incite violence.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of indifferent to freedom and the level of the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union is just a question of extent and not really threatening to anybody, then you're a Democrat.
Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.
I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
The NRA is where you resist, and stand and fight to put America back on track to restore and preserve our individual freedom.
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.
