Freedom Quotes - Page 9

• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Moving, Patriotic

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspiring, Blue, Sky

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.46, Penguin

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• To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

  Timothy Shriver

  Encouraging, Negative People, Judgement

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• He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

  Aristotle

  Fear, Athlete, Words Of Wisdom

  "Florilegium". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

  George Washington

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.222

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• A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

  Ezra Pound

  Life, Waiting, Pounds

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• If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Responsibility, Wish, Literature

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• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Fate, Rights, People

  Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977.

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• Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Heart, Mind, Battle

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• You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

  Edie Brickell

  Prisoner, Feels, Ifs

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• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Humor, Patriotic

  "Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858

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• Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  4th Of July, Men, Law

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• Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Hypocrite, Hands, People

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

  Emilio Aguinaldo

  Inspirational, Single, Moving

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• We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Home

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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• Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Patriotic, Political

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: new annotated edition”, p.28, MarcoPolo

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• It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

  Leo McKern

  Believe, Speech, Easy

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Long, History

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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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

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett, in Life, Vol. 7, No. 9 (p. 58), October 24, 1949.

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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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Peace is its own reward.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Rewards, Non Violence

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• I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Taken, Army

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• People demand freedom only when they have no power.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  People, Liberty, Literature

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• To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Trust, Faith

  "The Essence of Alan Watts". Book by Alan Watts, 1977.

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