Personal Freedom Quotes

• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Education, Book, Reading

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• It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

  Bill Hicks

  War, Drug, War On Drugs

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Our Veterans

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

  Don Nickles

  Leadership, Religious, Believe

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• None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

  John Milton

  Love, Freedom, Men

  The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

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• When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Moving, Weekend

  "Interview on MTV's "Enough is Enough" Forum". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 19, 1994.

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• Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, Freedom, Opportunity

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• If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Government, People

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• When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Weekend, Gun

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• Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

  James Q. Wilson

  Character, Self, Expression

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.2, American Enterprise Institute

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• Books were my pass to personal freedom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Black History Month

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• I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Unions, Communist, Soviet Union

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• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strength, Peace, Children

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Gun, Politics

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994”, p.716, Best Books on

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• Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

  Don DeLillo

  Hero, Writing, Identity

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.143, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Identity, Form

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.143, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote

  Lucy Stone

  Children, Husband, Believe

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

  Hideki Tojo

  Respect, War, Justice For All

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• Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Freedom, Fear, Joy

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• I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

  Rick Scott

  Party, Responsibility, Government

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• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  Lance Loud

  Lust, Reason, Preference

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• A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

  Robin S

  Self, Expression, Persons

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• Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.

  Richard Ebeling

  Attitude, Government, Engineering

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• Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

  John Longenecker

  Gun, Self, Citizens

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