Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 38

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Image of Edward Kennedy
In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.
- Edward Kennedy
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Joseph Joubert
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
- Joseph Joubert
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Image of Joseph Joubert
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
- Joseph Joubert
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Carl Jung
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.
- Carl Jung
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Image of John F. Kennedy
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of John F. Kennedy
While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Byron Katie
I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.
- Byron Katie
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Robert Kennedy
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
- Robert Kennedy
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Image of John F. Kennedy
For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of John F. Kennedy
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Henrik Ibsen
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
- Henrik Ibsen
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Image of John F. Kennedy
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of John F. Kennedy
Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Andrew Johnson
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
- Andrew Johnson
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Image of Henry James
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
- Henry James
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Image of Aldous Huxley
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
- Aldous Huxley
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Image of Henry James
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
- Henry James
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Image of John F. Kennedy
Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Byron Katie
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.
- Byron Katie
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Image of Samuel Johnson
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Immanuel Kant
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
- Immanuel Kant
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Helen Keller
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
- Helen Keller
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Image of Immanuel Kant
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.
- Immanuel Kant
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Image of Vladimir Lenin
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.
- Vladimir Lenin
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Image of Walter Lippmann
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
- Walter Lippmann
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Image of Walter Lippmann
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.
- Walter Lippmann
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Image of Aung San Suu Kyi
Please use your freedom to promote ours.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Karl Kraus
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
- Karl Kraus
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Image of Vladimir Lenin
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
- Vladimir Lenin
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Image of Vladimir Lenin
Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.
- Vladimir Lenin
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Image of Georg C. Lichtenberg
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Image of Dennis Kucinich
There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.
- Dennis Kucinich
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Tim Berners-Lee
Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.
- Tim Berners-Lee
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