Freedom Quotes - Page 6

• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, People, Intelligence

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• It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Power, Government, People

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• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

  Winston Churchill

  Humor, Men, Libertarian Party

  Winston S. Churchill “Young Statesman”

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• Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

  Samuel Adams

  Happiness, Country, Religious

  "American Independence". Speech to the State House in Philadelphia, www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com. August 01, 1776.

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, War

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

  Albert Camus

  4th Of July, Independence, Chance

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• You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Sacrifice, Men

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• The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

  Robert Kennedy

  Practice, Goal, Society

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Fear, Clever

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Men, Liberty

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Liberty, World

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.172, Knopf

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• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Patriotic, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.

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• We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

  James Madison

  Bible, God, Religious

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• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Powerful, War

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

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• Free men set themselves free.

  James Oppenheim

  Men, Free Man

  James Oppenheim (1914). “Songs for the New Age”

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• When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

  David Hockney

  Young, Exciting, Prepared

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• Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Liberty, Reason

  "Psychoanalysis and Religion".

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• At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.

  Ken Schoolland

  People, Liberty, Acting

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• The best road to progress is freedom's road.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.176, Best Books on

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• Freedom is knowing who you really are.

  Bill Vaughan

  Knowing, Self Knowledge

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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  Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Views, People

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

  John Milton

  Giving, Liberty, Arguing

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

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