Frank O'Hara Quotes

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

Broad local self-government; regional self-government for localities with special conditions of life or a particular make-up of the population. Unrestricted freedom of conscience, speech, press and assembly; the right to strike and to form trade unions. Freedom of movement and occupation. National self-determination for all nations forming part of the state.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded ...

Freedom is not the natural state of mankind. It is a rare and wondrous thing.

I'm not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I've got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we're talking about and just how much of that liberty we're going to have.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women?

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

People have the right to say whatever they want.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.