Alan Keyes - Freedom Quotes

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I can think of no society that would be uglier in its results than one in which everybody was determined to do whatever they could get away with, and in which no obligations or responsibilities were acknowledged to other human beings, to parents, to children; in which, essentially, we had defined freedom as "do what you please" and "go as far as you think your power will carry you. Despoil and exploit anybody you have to, because as long as you get away with it, no one will stand in your way."

Alan Keyes
Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do—for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.

Alan Keyes
It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Alan Keyes
Because people afraid of themselves, afraid of their own abuses, no longer confident in their own goodness, are people who will surrender their freedom in order to avoid the consequences of their wickedness.

Alan Keyes
Very simply, if we live in a society in which people are going to abuse their freedom, none of us would be willing to tolerate it for very long.

Alan Keyes
There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God - the Source of unalienable rights and the Policeman stationed in every human heart... But apparently, we don't believe in that sort of thing anymore.

Alan Keyes