Freedom Quotes - Page 29

• The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Responsibility, Bears

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• I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, Order, Security

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• The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Real, Men

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• Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Mastery, Spirit

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• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

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• The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

  Alice Neel

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• I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Nature, Privacy

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.242, Best Books on

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• The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

  Daniel Webster

  Gun, Libertarian Party, People

  Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings”, p.30

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Essence, Slavery, Anarchy

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• We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

  David Mamet

  Media, Expression, Police

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

  Dmitry Pisarev

  Men, Weak Man, Democracy

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• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Party, Democracies Have

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Years, Historical

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• If you love someone, set them free.

  Sting

  Love, Relationship, Loving Someone

  Song: (If You Love Somebody) Set Them Free

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• I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Art, People

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• It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

  Karl Popper

  Thinking, Victory, Belief

  Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.92, Routledge

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• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Philosophical, Evil

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• You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

  George W. Bush

  Democracy, Boxes

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• Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Possession, Values

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• Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Causes, Increase

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.433, Transaction Publishers

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• We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

  Will Durant

  Looks, Excess, Broadway

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  Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Equality

  Speech by minister Koenders at the presentation of the 2015 Human Rights Tulip, November 12, 2015.

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• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Giving, Political, Democracy

  Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.

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