Freedom Quotes IV

FREEDOM QUOTES IV

quotations about freedom

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

TAD WILLIAMS

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.

JAMES MADISON

speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution, Jun. 6, 1788

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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

attributed, The Rebirth of a Nation

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May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly--until at last the darkness is no more.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 21, 1957

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Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?

ALBERT CAMUS

Caligula

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Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

My Bondage and My Freedom

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Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.

PETER CAREY

Parrot and Olivier in America

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Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

JIMMY CARTER

Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1977

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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

EDMUND BURKE

speech on conciliation with America, 1775

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Any bonds today?
Bonds of freedom
That's what I'm selling
Any bonds today?
Scrape up the most you can
Here comes the freedom man

DUKE ELLINGTON

"Any Bonds Today?"

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Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

"Them", Lapham's Quarterly: Foreigners, winter 2014

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Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

WILHELM REICH

Listen

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Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

NELSON MANDELA

Long Walk to Freedom

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Blood of Others

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Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

ERICH FROMM

Escape from Freedom

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God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

SRI AUROBINDO

Bhagavad Gita and Its Message

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True freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Stanzas on Freedom"

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The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!