Freedom Quotes III

FREEDOM QUOTES III

quotations about freedom

It is the mind of man alone that is the cause of his bondage or freedom.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.

JAMES MADISON

speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution, Jun. 6, 1788

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This is my right
A right given by God
To live a free life
To live in freedom

PAUL MCCARTNEY

"Freedom"

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Freedom, we're gonna ring the bell
Freedom to rock, freedom to talk
Freedom, raise your fist and yell

ALICE COOPER

"Freedom"

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook L", Aphorisms

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For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Freedom

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Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.

PETER CAREY

Parrot and Olivier in America

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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

The Social Contract

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The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH

State of the Union Address, Jan. 31, 1990

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Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

My Bondage and My Freedom

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Freedom all solace to man gives
He lives at ease who freely lives.

JOHN BARBOUR

The Bruce

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We ... would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

speech, June 1941

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Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

MICHEL AOUN

attributed, Dictionary of Quotations

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The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES

Edmund Burke

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Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

ERICH FROMM

Escape from Freedom

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For those who have it, freedom is like oxygen, it's something we just have. Many will not understand just how precious either is until they are at risk of losing it.

JOHN DUTCHER

"Crowd turns out for parade under beautiful sunny skies Monday", Gloversville Leader-Herald, May 28, 2019

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Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

"Them", Lapham's Quarterly: Foreigners, winter 2014

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

attributed, Lindbergh

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.