Freedom Quotes - Page 18

• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Men, Democracies Have

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.238, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, May, Granted

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• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Art, Philosophical, Progress

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• Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Character, Complete Freedom

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• The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If "freedom" means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

  P. K. Page

  Men, World, Aperture

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• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

  Edmund Burke

  Atheism, Superstitions, Anarchy

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• We hail the return of the day of thy birth,
  Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans
  Where men from the farthest dominions of earth
  Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;
  Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right,
  Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight;
  Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be
  An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.

  Abraham Coles

  Father, Ocean, Fighting

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

  Albert Camus

  Action, Individual, Midst

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.56, Vintage

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• We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
  That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
  Which Milton held.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Faith, Tongue

  'It is not to be thought of' (1807)

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• Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

  Alan Keyes

  Responsibility, Firsts

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• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Integrity, Struggle

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• Only law can give us freedom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Law, Giving

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• You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Death, Suicide

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

  Philip Wylie

  Mean, Liberty, Ifs

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• Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

  Jason Mraz

  Art, Travel, Cheer

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• You can only be free if I am free.

  Clarence Darrow

  Liberty, Libertarian, Limited Government

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

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• I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

  Jonathan Swift

  Slave, Freeman

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.102

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• Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  "Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung" by Rosa Luxemburg, (p. 109), 1920.

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• Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Way, Freedom Liberty

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

  Paul Robeson

  Hard

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• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Animal, Determined

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• When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.

  Star Parker

  Responsibility, Caring, Helping Others

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• O freedom, first delight of human kind!

  John Dryden

  Delight, Firsts, Kind

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.468

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