William Hazlitt Quotes
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
Quotes to Explore
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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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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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
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The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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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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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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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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Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
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Sartre observed that he had never felt so free as during the German occupation when (as a member of the French resistance) he was in constant danger of being arrested and shot. Could there be a more conclusive proof that human beings are freer than they realize, and that their freedom is eroded by habit and laziness?
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Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.
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A true man hates no one.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
