Freedom Quotes - Page 10

• The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

  Thomas Campbell

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media

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• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Independent, Men, Evil

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Inspirational Life

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  Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiring, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  Euripides

  Law, People, Acting

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• Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Age, Trials, Revolution

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

  Will Rogers

  Patriotic, Practice, Liberty

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• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Blessing

  Title of speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution. MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks (1965), p. 194. Francis T. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur, Fighter for Freedom, p. 1, 1942.

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• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

  George Washington

  Memorial Day, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Liberty, West Berlin

  Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

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• How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

  Robert Browning

  Deep Thought, Fetters, Seems

  "My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

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• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fire, Democracies Have, People

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• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  War, Democracies Have, Political

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Hands, Law

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Business, Yoga

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Equality, Rights

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• A hungry man is not a free man.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Compassion, Hunger And Poverty

  Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952

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• Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

  Adyashanti

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

  David Foster

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, People

  David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.1843magazine.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Our Generation, Tyrants

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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  Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.

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• Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, God, 4th Of July

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  George Washington Carver

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press

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