“Tyranny by its very nature arises from democracy, and the worst form of tyranny and servitude proceeds from the highest and most extreme liberty.”
Source: The Republic
“Again and again we are asked to choose between freedom and security when in truth there is no security without freedom. In both dictatorships and democracies, the agencies of "national security", acting secretively and unaccountably, have regularly violated both our freedom and our security, practicing every known form of repression, corruption, and deceit.”
Source: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“The world finds itself torn between the two great bookends of human history, authoritarianism and anarchy. Authoritarianism is the world of order and stability without freedom...Anarchy, on the other hand, is the world of freedom without order and stability...The present challenge is to establish genuine personal freedom and substantially free societies in a generation that pays lip service to freedom while all the time it is pulled toward one or the other of the extremes.”
Source: The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom
“America cannot endure permanently half 1776 and half 1789. The compromises, contradictions, hypocrisies, inequities, and evils have built up unaddressed. The grapes of wrath have ripened again, and the choice before America is plain. Either America goes forward best by going back first, or America is about to reap a future in which the worst will once again be the corruption of the best.”
Source: The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom
“Any and all recognition of freedom means recognizing the integrity of the equal freedom of others.”
Source: The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom
“Trovo la televisione molto educativa. Ogni volta che qualcuno la accende, vado in biblioteca e leggo un buon libro.”
“. . . I'm reminded that I simply inherited freedom. For many, freedom has to be earned.”
Source: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
“Goodness without freedom and freedom without goodness are both impossible.”
“By convention,
I have been taught to
isolate the variables
on the left side and
the constants on the right
But you still have that characteristic
freewill of wallowing in the abstraction
of algebra
You could also isolate the variables
on the right side and
the constants on the left.”
Source: For the Intellect
“Your equation—your choice!
You could do whatever
you want with an equation—
just as long as it’s done on both sides!”
Source: For the Intellect