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.
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.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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.
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.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
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.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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.
It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!
I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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