Freedom Quotes - Page 8

• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Fighting, Winning

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

  Adyashanti

  Ideas, People, Trying

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  Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiring, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  War, Democracies Have, Political

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Yoga, Air, Appreciate

  "The 100 Greatest Heroes" by Harry Paul Jeffers, (p. 60), 2003.

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• A hungry man is not a free man.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Compassion, Hunger And Poverty

  Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952

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• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  H. L. Mencken

  Animal, Democracy, Ears

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• Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

  Will Rogers

  Patriotic, Practice, Liberty

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• What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

  Bruce Barton

  Sacrifice, Men, Individuality

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Attitude, Done

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

  Alan Watts

  Water, Leaving, Inspire

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Men, Liberty

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.133

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• Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Men, Errors

  Wilhelm Reich (1960). “Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy”

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• How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

  Bob Dylan

  Years, People, Politics

  'Blowin' in the Wind' (1962 song)

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• Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

  Max Stirner

  Fall, Men, Uprising

  Forbes, Volume 78, 1956.

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• The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Recovery, Splendid, Seeking

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.439

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• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  James Russell Lowell

  Law, Atheism, Literature

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Liberty, May

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• In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

  J. William Fulbright

  Faith, Medicine, Political

  1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.

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• Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Literature, Away From You

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• Rules and models destroy genius and art.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Teaching, Intellectual

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Taste'

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• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Libertarian Party, Historical, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

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• Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Philosophy, Kids

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Apr 16, 2013

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• A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Order, Office

  "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (p. 48), August 5, 1946.

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