938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine

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“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.” — Erich Fromm

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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

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“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington

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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.” — Dalai Lama

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“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.” — Harry S. Truman

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“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.” — Lord Byron

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“There is no such thing as part freedom.” — Nelson Mandela

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“The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.” — Johnny Carson

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“This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.” — Walt Whitman

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“We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” — Pericles

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“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.” — Rowan Atkinson

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“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.” — Luis Bunuel

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“There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.” — Dave Matthews

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“Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.” — Alice Walker

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“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.” — Suze Orman

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“I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.” — Michael J. Fox

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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 Covey

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