“Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
“Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.”
“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”
“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.”
“'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.”
“Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.”
“Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.”
“I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.”
“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.”
“Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.”
“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.”
“Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.”
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.”
“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.”
“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
“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.”
“Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.”