Freedom Quotes

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Freedom Quotes:
"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be." - James Arthur Baldwin

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself." - Thomas Paine

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Freedom Quotes:
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be." - Ayn Rand

"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free." - Epictetus

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

"History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads." - Charles de Gaulle

Freedom Quotes:
"While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions." - Stephen R. Covey

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Benjamin Franklin

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought." - Charles Kingsley

"Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves." - Author Unknown

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
- George Washington

Freedom Quotes:
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights." - Felix Frankfurter

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
- Ronald Reagan

Freedom Quotes:
"The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." - Billy Graham

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." - William Faulkner

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
- Thomas Macaulay

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires." - Bertrand Russell

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus

Freedom Quotes:
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams

"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 Fitzgerald Kennedy

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