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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

  James Madison

  Believe, Power, People

  Speech at Virginia Convention, 5 June 1788

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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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• 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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• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Veterans Day, Military, Bad Ass

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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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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• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Patriotic, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.

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• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Black

  Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.

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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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• 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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• Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Heart, Mind, Battle

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• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Trust, War

  'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)

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• Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Men, Liberty

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

  John Adams

  Children, Patriotic, Liberty

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.197

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Positivity

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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• 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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• The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Talking, Vision

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• Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Learning, Responsibility

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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• If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Relationship, Hate

  Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Responsibility, Responsible, Being Responsible

  "Twilight of the Idols". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sect. 38, 1888.

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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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• Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Silence, Liberty, Opinion

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• Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Exercise, Men, Choices

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• None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Peace, Understanding

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.4.

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• Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Brutus". Play by Voltaire (Act II, Scene I), 1730.

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