Freedom Quotes
9007 Freedom quotes by 3931 unique authors
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No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within…
— James Madison
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I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters…
— Calvin Coolidge
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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…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
— James Otis
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If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people,…
— James Madison
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At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of…
— Anthony Kennedy
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Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
— James Madison
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Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
— Ronald Reagan
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In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order…
— Ronald Reagan
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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…
— Ronald Reagan
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Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United…
— Ronald Reagan
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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…
— Ronald Reagan
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When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights,…
— Ronald Reagan
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. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in…
— Ronald Reagan
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our…
— Ronald Reagan
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Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but…
— Ronald Reagan
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But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In…
— Ronald Reagan
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Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human…
— Ronald Reagan
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Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism…
— Norman Angell
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The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war.…
— John T. Flynn
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There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.
— George W. Bush
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
— William E. Simon
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As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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