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Freedom Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble…
- I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
- So far as a person thinks; they are free.
- Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
- All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them…
- Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
- If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
- A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
- America means opportunity, freedom, power.
- Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.
- 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…
- Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
- Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our…
- I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
- Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
- Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
- I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or…
- Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to…
- The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
- The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
- Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to…
- For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
- If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
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- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
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