Freedom Quotes - Page 5

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Business

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Positivity

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Patriotic, Equality

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

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• This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Fighting, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiration, 4th Of July, Drinking

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Judging, Political, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Liberty, May

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• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, Political Language

  "The Freedom of the Press" (1945)

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• The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Rights, Liberty

  1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.

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• What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeish

  Sheena Iyengar

  Men, Choices, Alternatives

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• I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Mar 01, 2017

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• Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Politics, Economic

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Silence, Liberty, Opinion

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• Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

  Epicurus

  Self, Liberty, Environmental

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Positive, Fear

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Fighting, Winning

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Independent, Gun, Government

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Believe

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• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

  Bob Dylan

  Courage, Hero, Responsibility

  Interview published with the "Biograph" album set, 1985.

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• Freedom exists only with power.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Power

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• We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Expression, Essentials, Looks

  Annual Message to Congress, 6 Jan. 1941 See Roosevelt and Churchill 3

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• There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Things In Life, Two, Action

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.130, Diversion Books

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  You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

  Gandhi, Mahatma “Inspiring Thoughts”, Rajpal & Sons

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• Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Earth, Lasts, Conservative

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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