“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
Thucydides quotes (Ancient Greek historians and author, 460-404bc)
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“He who is brave is free.”
Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine
of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944)
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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)
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“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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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.”
ReadyWriter Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)
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“You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions”
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“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.”
William Glasser quotes ( , b.1925)
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“Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.”
Gen Michel Aoun quotes
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“There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and
powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903- 1977)
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“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.”
Ayn Rand quotes (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)
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“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer,
Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.
~Samuel Hendel
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition;
for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
~Thomas Paine
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of
free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. ~Charles de Gaulle
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be
daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical,
religious, social, and even political. ~Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the
freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the
natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard
yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of
people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
~Dick Cheney
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We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to
find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
~Robert J. McCracken
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the
fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D.
Roosevelt
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We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? ~Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan
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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley
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No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown
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Nations grown corrupt
Love bondage more than liberty;
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
~John Milton
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Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and
mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral
law.... ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two
Brothers, 1827
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Freedom means choosing your burden. ~Hephzibah Menuhin
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty
. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
~Eric Hoffer
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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown
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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you
decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Freedom is not enough.
~Lyndon B. Johnson
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the
subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~Woodrow Wilson
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of
our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William
Faulkner
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvani,
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of
darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of
forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
~Felix Frankfurter
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O Liberty...! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded?
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
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Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison
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Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~Francis Wright, 1828
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by
gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden
usurpations.
~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
~Will Rogers
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow
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Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
~William Cowper
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling
assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
~Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
~Daniel Webster
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy,
let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
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I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
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Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
~Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-
meaning but without understanding. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory
but new Masters. ~George Savile
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Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
~Baron de Montesquieu
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1905
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~Edmund Burke
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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate
themselves.
~Errico Malatesta, l'Agitazione, 18 June 1897
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Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown
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We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to
be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition
that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is
worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had
learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay
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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader.
1929-1968)
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“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be
educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the
educated are free”
Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)
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“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all”
Jacob Hornberger quotes
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“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to
do with one's freedom”
Andre Gide quotes (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for
literature, 1869-1951)
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“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)
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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for
Literature, 1913-1960)
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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will
and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to
choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.”
Walter Cronkite quotes (American Journalist well known for his role as a television
news anchor, b.1916)
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“Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences”
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“All good things are wild, and free.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
lstyd Bob Dylan quotes (American folksinger, b.1941)
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“A library is an arsenal of liberty.”
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes
my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight
in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine
of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
George Orwell quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)
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“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.”
santiz James Arthur Baldwin quotes (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)
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“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”
pjc1190 Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)
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“I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that
you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I
want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.”
shell7587 Joni Mitchell quotes
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“Everyone pushes a falling fence”
Chinese Proverbs quotes
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“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard quotes (Danish Philosopher and Theologian, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. 1813-1855)
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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 Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)
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“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the
Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who
can labor in freedom.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and
general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Robert A. Heinlein quotes (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)
