Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 28

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Image of Elizabeth Bowen
This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
- Elizabeth Bowen
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Image of John Milton
For so I created them free and free they must remain.
- John Milton
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Image of Herbert Spencer
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
- Herbert Spencer
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Image of Seneca the Younger
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Rumi
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
- Rumi
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Image of Neale Donald Walsch
Your personal freedom to experience yourself and life as you wish is not being limited. Step into your choices and stop telling yourself that you can't, when what you really mean is that you don't want other people to feel the way you think that are going to feel when they see you making the choices you really want to make.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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Image of William J. Brennan
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.
- William J. Brennan
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Image of Rajneesh
Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?
- Rajneesh
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Image of Amartya Sen
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty
- Amartya Sen
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Image of Ronald Reagan
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Ronald Reagan
We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Image of Daniel Webster
The man is free who is protected from injury.
- Daniel Webster
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Image of Jaggi Vasudev
Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.
- Jaggi Vasudev
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Image of Ludwig von Mises
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.
- Ludwig von Mises
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Image of Edward Abbey
Freedom begins between the ears.
- Edward Abbey
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Image of Pope John Paul II
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
- Pope John Paul II
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Image of Leon Trotsky
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
- Leon Trotsky
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Image of Woodrow Wilson
A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.
- Woodrow Wilson
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Image of Virginia Woolf
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Image of Rajneesh
All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Rumi
Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.
- Rumi
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Image of Mark Twain
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Lee Kuan Yew
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
- Lee Kuan Yew
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Image of Seneca the Younger
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of Vita Sackville-West
Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
- Vita Sackville-West
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Image of Ayn Rand
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Carl Sagan
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Ludwig von Mises
Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
- Ludwig von Mises
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Image of Ludwig von Mises
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
- Ludwig von Mises
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Image of Ludwig von Mises
The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.
- Ludwig von Mises
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Image of George Washington
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
- George Washington
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Aeschylus
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
- Aeschylus
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Image of George Will
The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.
- George Will
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Ron Paul
Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness. The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom-loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.
- Ron Paul
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Image of Ron Paul
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.
- Ron Paul
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Image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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