It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

I think it's a bill that puts a high priority on religious freedom and recognizes that as a part of the balance.

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

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