Freedom Quotes
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But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
Esther Dyson
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
Will Durant
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Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
Esther Dyson
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Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Herbert Spencer
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We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
Bill Clinton
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Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.
Kathryn Lindskoog
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Where there is no math, there is no freedom.
Edward Frenkel
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Only law can give us freedom.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)
Saul Bellow
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
Erica Jong
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S Truman
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My name means freedom in Irish.
Saoirse Ronan
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust
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If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.
Catherine Fisher
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Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
Gautama Buddha
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All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.
William Norman Ewer
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The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom.
Georgess McHargue