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• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Two, Lunch, Voting

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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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• Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

  Bob Marley

  Encouraging, Memorial Day, Military

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

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• Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sacrifice, Liberty, Civil Liberties

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  For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

  Malcolm X

  Peace, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.

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• True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Jail, Chained

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• Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Liberty, Slavery, Opinion

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, The”, p.262, Bethany House

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• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Fear, Clever

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"

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• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, People, Independence

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Rights, Expression

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• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Inspirational, Leadership

  'Political Essays' (1819) '"The Times" Newspaper'

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• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, People, Intelligence

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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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• 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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• When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Hands, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Inspirational, Nothing To Lose, Left

  "Me and Bobby McGee". Song by Kris Kristofferson, www.esquire.com. July, 1969.

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• Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

  Abraham Lincoln

  Want, Ought

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• The best road to progress is freedom's road.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.176, Best Books on

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  Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Independent, Science, Political Will

  Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”

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• Only the educated are free.

  Epictetus

  Life, Education, Teacher

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

  John Steinbeck

  Fighting, Government, Ideas

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.827, Penguin

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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Philosophical, Patriotic

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

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