#freedom

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#any #anyone #anywhere #envision #freedom

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom. ↗

— George Duke

#freedom #i #my own #own #pay

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equal #equality #freedom #rather #slavery

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#demands #freedom #issuing #mind #only

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. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#corollary #freedom #generate #how #imposing

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#democratic #enterprise #even #free #free enterprise

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#anybody #belief #built #could #does

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#brave #call #country #false #free

If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission. ↗

— Deborah Feldman

#freedom #dreams

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#country #discussion #freedom #i #independence