Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 37

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Image of Woody Guthrie
Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.
- Woody Guthrie
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Image of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Image of E. W. Howe
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
- E. W. Howe
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Image of Shantideva
The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed
- Shantideva
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Image of David Hockney
When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
- David Hockney
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of Eric Hoffer
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
- Eric Hoffer
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Image of L. Ron Hubbard
A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.
- L. Ron Hubbard
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Image of Marcus Aurelius
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Image of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Image of Eric Hoffer
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
- Eric Hoffer
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Image of Nhat Hanh
If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.
- Nhat Hanh
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of David Ben-Gurion
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
- David Ben-Gurion
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Image of Herbert Hoover
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.
- Herbert Hoover
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Image of Ernest Holmes
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
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Image of Elbert Hubbard
Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Image of Fannie Lou Hamer
if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
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Image of Lillian Hellman
Freedom costs you a great deal.
- Lillian Hellman
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of John F. Kennedy
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of John F. Kennedy
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Alan Keyes
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
- Alan Keyes
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Byron Katie
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
- Byron Katie
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Carl Jung
Without freedom there can be no morality.
- Carl Jung
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Image of Alan Kay
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
- Alan Kay
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Image of Aldous Huxley
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
- Aldous Huxley
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Immanuel Kant
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
- Immanuel Kant
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Image of John F. Kennedy
All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of John F. Kennedy
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Langston Hughes
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
- Langston Hughes
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of John F. Kennedy
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Victor Hugo
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
- Victor Hugo
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Image of Lord Kelvin
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.
- Lord Kelvin
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Freedom, the first-born of science.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of William James
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
- William James
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Carl Jung
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
- Carl Jung
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Hubert H. Humphrey
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
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Image of William James
Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
- William James
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