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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.
There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.
The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.
We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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 potential.
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.