For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
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.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
Beware of dreams! And watch your dreams day in, day out, because they are continuously there. You can watch them, and by watching them you will become unidentified with them, you will become a mirror reflecting them. And this brings great freedom. Freedom from dreams is freedom from the world.
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.
An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.
Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.
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