Quotes on freedom
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
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Francis Wright Quotes
When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.
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George Savile Quotes
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Frederick Douglass Quotes
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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James Madison Quotes
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
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Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Freedom means choosing your burden.
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Hephzibah Menuhin Quotes
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
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Dick Cheney Quotes
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
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Aaliyah Quotes
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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Thomas Macaulay Quotes
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
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Hans Christian Anderson Quotes
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
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Errico Malatesta Quotes
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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William Faulkner Quotes
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
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Moshe Dayan Quotes
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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Albert Camus Quotes
Without freedom, no one really has a name.
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Milton Acorda Quotes
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
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Ignazio Silone Quotes
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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Daniel Webster Quotes
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
No one is free when others are oppressed.
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Author Unknown Quotes
There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of this [web] site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Joseph Addison Quotes
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
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Robert J. McCracken Quotes
All men have stood for freedom ... and now the common enemy has gone you are all like men in a mist, seeking for freedom and know not where nor what it is: and those of the richer sort of you that see it are ashamed and afraid to own it, because it comes clothed in a clownish garment... For freedom is the man that will turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he hath enemies.
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Gerrard Winstanley Quotes
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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D.H. Lawrence Quotes
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
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Jeffrey Borenstein Quotes
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
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Felix Frankfurter Quotes
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
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Walter Lippmann Quotes
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Baron de Montesquieu Quotes
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
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William E. Simon Quotes
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Charles de Gaulle Quotes
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
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Charles Kingsley Quotes
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Freedom is never free.
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Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
My views are one that speaks to freedom.
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George W. Bush Quotes
King Abdullah of Jordan, the King of Morocco, I mean, there's a series of places - Qatar, Oman - I mean, places that are developing - Bahrain - they're all developing the habits of free societies.
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George W. Bush Quotes