When we through our educational culture through the media through the entertainment culture give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions we are telling them in effect that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic actionable program of fundamental change one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens big change will not come.
You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee we get nervous about her and admit censorship.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
When one makes a Revolution one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man we cannot rest.
Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy liberty individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
As human beings we are endowed with freedom of choice and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.