Freedom Quotes - Page 4

• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Humor

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Motivational, Self Control, Enjoy

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• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, Drinking

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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• When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Hands, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Gun, Government

  Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sacrifice, Liberty, Civil Liberties

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• For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Simplicity, Gold

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• Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

  Vernon Howard

  Numbers, Being Free, Measurement

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  You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Peace, Life And Love, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

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• Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Passion, Heart

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• Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

  Abraham Lincoln

  Want, Ought

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• Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  4th Of July, Direct Action, Jail

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivational, Real, Failure

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, 4th Of July, Responsibility

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Jail, Chained

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• Running away will never make you free.

  Kenny Loggins

  Running, Romance, Running Away

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, 4th Of July, Exercise

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Military

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• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Veterans Day, Military, Bad Ass

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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  Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Life, Strength, Teacher

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Responsibility, Responsible, Being Responsible

  "Twilight of the Idols". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sect. 38, 1888.

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• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Philosophical, Patriotic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Brutus". Play by Voltaire (Act II, Scene I), 1730.

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