Faith Baldwin Quotes

You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.

Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.