liberty of action Quotes

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

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

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.

My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be made to defend their right to do it.

People are free to do whatever they want to do.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.