Freedom Quotes - Page 5

• Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Education, Work

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

  George Washington

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.222

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, 4th Of July, Responsibility

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

  Judith Martin

  Country, Equality, People

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• I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

  Russell Means

  Issues, Important, Today

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• A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

  Aristotle

  Fear, Athlete, Words Of Wisdom

  "Florilegium". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Blessing

  Title of speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution. MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks (1965), p. 194. Francis T. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur, Fighter for Freedom, p. 1, 1942.

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• The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Democracy, Constitution, Source

  "Address of Acceptance". Address accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president, Washington, D.C., on August 04, 1924, p. 15,

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Military

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• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Liberty, World

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.172, Knopf

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  Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Views, People

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Fate, Rights, People

  Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977.

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• Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Hypocrite, Hands, People

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• The best road to progress is freedom's road.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.176, Best Books on

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• To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Trust, Faith

  "The Essence of Alan Watts". Book by Alan Watts, 1977.

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Gun, Government

  Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Independent, Men, Evil

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Inspirational Life

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• The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Truth, Society, Liberty

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1935, Delphi Classics

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• Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Hands, Law

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

  Robert Browning

  Deep Thought, Fetters, Seems

  "My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

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• Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Age, Trials, Revolution

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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