938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.” — Victor Hugo

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“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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“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.” — Nelson Mandela

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“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison

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

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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.” — Albert Camus

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“For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.” — Albert Camus

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“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” — John F. Kennedy

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“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.” — John F. Kennedy

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“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” — George Orwell

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“Art is the daughter of freedom.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.” — H. L. Mencken

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“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.” — Robert Frost

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“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.” — Ronald Reagan

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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” — Nelson Mandela

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“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” — Mark Twain

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“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” — Albert Camus

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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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