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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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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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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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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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
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Art is the daughter of freedom.
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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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... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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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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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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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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Through discipline comes freedom.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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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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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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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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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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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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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 clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.
