Inspirational Freedom Quotes - Page 2

• Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Sleep, Destiny, August

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on

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• The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, Badass, Bad Ass

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• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 04, 2014

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• We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

  William Faulkner

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

  Jim Morrison

  Giving Up, Freedom, Hippie

  "Take Off The Mask" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2016.

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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

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

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• After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Long Walks, Climbing

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Memorial Day

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Shadow Of Death, Desire

  Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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