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I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
I want free life, and I want fresh air;
And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
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I want free life, and I want fresh air;
And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
The crack of the whip like shots in battle,
The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads
That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;
The green beneath and the blue above,
And dash, and danger, and life and love.
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win read more
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.