938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.” — Robert Kennedy

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“Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.” — Nelson Mandela

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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 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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“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.” — Nelson Mandela

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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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“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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“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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“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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“The best road to progress is freedom's road.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

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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 a possession of inestimable value.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” — James Madison

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