Freedom Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Humor

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

  Nelson Mandela

  Shadow Of Death, Desire, Easy

  Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

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• At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Wish, Liberty

  "Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments".

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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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  If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

  James Madison

  Inspirational, Fear, War

  "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.

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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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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, 4th Of July, Exercise

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Sleep

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

  Winston Churchill

  Humor, Men, Libertarian Party

  Winston S. Churchill “Young Statesman”

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Witty, Humorous, Patriotic

  "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.

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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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• Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sacrifice, Liberty, Civil Liberties

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

  Unknown

  Two, Lunch, Voting

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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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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Slave Labor

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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  Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, 4th Of July, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1999). “Celebrate the Third Millennium!: Facing the Future with Hope”, Servant Publications

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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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• Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

  Milton Friedman

  Liberty, Libertarian, Belief

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (2002). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, 4th Of July

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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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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  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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• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  Malcolm X

  Vocabulary, Hajj, Ready

  Chicago Defender, November 28, 1962.

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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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