938 private quotes tagged freedom

“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Responsibility is the price of freedom.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

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“A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.” — Bodhidharma

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

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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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“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.” — Frank Herbert

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