938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“The only certain freedom's in departure.” — Robert Frost

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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” — George Orwell

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“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.” — Richard Branson

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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.” — Albert Camus

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“B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.” — Thomas Moore

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“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.” — Howard Zinn

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“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.” — Karl Popper

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“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.” — George Eliot

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“Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” — Stephen Fry

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“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.” — Nelson Mandela

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“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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