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Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 140
The secret of freedom, courage.
Thucydides
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.
Archibald MacLeish
A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
William Ellery Channing
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.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
Clarence Darrow
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.
Oswald Spengler
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.
Pablo Casals
The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.
Jack Kornfield
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
Franz Grillparzer
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Kennedy
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
Peter Kropotkin
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
Norman Cousins