John Locke Quotes
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
Quotes to Explore
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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He won't fight the Germans but he will fight for Office.
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Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
