Alan Keyes Quotes

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

The disciplined are free.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.