Freedom Quotes
9007 Freedom quotes by 3931 unique authors
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The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
— Benazir Bhutto
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
— Clarence Darrow
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The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
— Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
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Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all.…
— Federico Mayor Zaragoza
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We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty…
— Nelson Mandela
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As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market…
— Vaclav Klaus
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The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.
— Carlo Dossi
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The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of…
— Vaclav Klaus
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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
— Joichi Ito
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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable…
— Immanuel Kant
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to…
— Dalai Lama
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Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
— Unknown Author
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To live in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to…
— Jose Mujica
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Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
— DeForest Soaries
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It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it…
— Terry Rossio
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The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
— Christopher Dawson
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The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources.…
— Eric Kierans
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Freedom Quotes
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