Freedom Quotes - Page 35

• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• Free your mind and your ass will follow

  George Clinton

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  George Clinton (2014). “Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.

  Forbes Burnham

  Failure, Independent, Views

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• Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices.

  Sandra Fluke

  Country, Badass, Moving

  Sandra Fluke's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone.
  The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.

  Jeremy Jones

  Sky, Feet, Snowboarding

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• In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Differences, Unity, Liberty

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• Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Fear, Thinking, Self

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• The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

  Norman Thomas

  Names, Usa, World Government

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

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• When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Children, Cells, Jail

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• Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

  Roger Sherman

  Love, Sad, Country

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• But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

  Walter E. Williams

  Justice, Society, Liberty

  "All it takes is guts". Book by Walter E. Williams, 1987.

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• Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

  Jacque Fresco

  Acceptance, Games, People

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• It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Power, Government, Order

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.217, Soft Skull Press

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Good Life

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

  Andrew Jackson

  Military, Blessing, Pay The Price

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436

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• Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

  David Riesman

  Men, Class, Different

  David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney (2001). “The Lonely Crowd”, p.307, Yale University Press

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  H. L. Mencken

  Integrity, Men, Libertarian Party

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Essence, Goal

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• I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

  Karl Popper

  Government, Democracy, Liberty

  Karl Raimund Popper (2002). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.464, Psychology Press

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• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

  James Madison

  Education, Inspirational Life, Knowledge

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

  Norman Mailer

  Democracies Have, Tyrants, Democracy

  1963 The Presidential Papers, preface.

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• Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Action, Mercy

  Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shaw (1999). “Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva”, p.253, Penguin UK

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• The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

  Utah Phillips

  Eye, Giving, Waiting

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• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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• Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Battle, Speech, Opinion

  "Die Russische Revolution". Book by Paul Froelich, 1940.

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