Freedom Quotes - Page 27

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  It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  Samuel Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

  Lydia M. Child

  Land, Water, Mountain

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  H. L. Mencken

  Thankful, Gratitude, Political

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Liberty, Principles

  Walter Lippmann (1995). “Liberty and the News”, p.61, Transaction Publishers

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• [L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

  John Adams

  Father, Blood, Liberty

  Joseph E. SPRAGUE, John Adams (1826). “An Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, etc”, p.36

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• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Time, Democracies Have

  Speech in House of Commons, 11 Nov. 1947

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• In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Government, Desire, Liberty

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• Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Desire, Realization

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A Fresh Look at Empiricism 1927-42”

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• The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

  Daniel Webster

  Political, Age, Liberty

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.385, Beard Books

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• Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Nothing To Lose

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• It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Average, Law, America

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• I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

  Nina Simone

  Years, Excellence, Important

  "Nina Simone and the problem with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame" by Hanif Abdurraqib, ew.com. April 12, 2018.

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• Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memories, War, Book

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  Axel Munthe

  Inspirational, Animal, Democracy

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• The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Law, Abuse

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.591

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  Franklin A. Thomas

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Eye

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• You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst was that their Bill of Rights stops at the border. Inside the US, the federal government has been limited. Beyond the borders, the government has been able to do anything it wanted.

  Richard J. Maybury

  Mistake, Rights, Government

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• ...And in freedom, most people find sin.

  John Green

  People, Amsterdam, Sin

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.93, Penguin

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• Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Media, Liberty, Losing

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.71, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracy, Doe, Next

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• For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

  Janet Frame

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Exercise, Rights, Interesting

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• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Life, Relationship

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracies Have, Religion, Democracy

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• The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Health, Names

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.160, Hackett Publishing

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