Freedom Quotes
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.
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Art is the daughter of freedom.
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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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Through discipline comes freedom.
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Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
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... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.
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I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
