Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 10
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
Henri Matisse
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.
Arnold J. Toynbee
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
Corazon Aquino
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
Whittaker Chambers
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.
Only law can give us freedom.
Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.
Robert Grudin
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
Pericles
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
Joseph Joubert
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
