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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Peace is its own reward.
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.
Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.
A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
