Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I have sworn to the nation to govern it under a constitutional system. But if, through the vices of its organization or the passions of its agents, it wants to convert itself into an instrument of anarchy, the nation itself in use of its sovereign rights will give a new representation, and I will be the first to invoke it.

Today the Turkish nation is called on to defend its capacity for civilization, its right to life and independence – its entire future.

Freedom has been used throughout history to mean different things…. In the Civil War the North fought for individual freedom while the South fought for community freedom.

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.

I think I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for …, to wit a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

We’ve got to break away completely from the British, their King, their parliament, their government, their empire. And we will.

Our ancestors have always regarded independence as fundamental to the concept of a nation.

I didn’t fight the Belgians only to have my country colonized a second time.

No nation can be free unless it is strong enough and active enough to control, whenever necessary, every private individual or group whose action affects the general welfare

I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for, since the days of Nimrod, to wit, a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: Independence or Death!

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand…. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

No foreign Power can consistently yield Comfort to Rebels, or enter into any kind of Treaty with these Colonies until they [the Colonies] declare themselves free and independent.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.