| Quotation 1 : | FREEDOM
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." |
| George Washington |
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| Quotation 2 : | FREEDOM
"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 3 : | FREEDOM
"Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 4 : | FREEDOM
"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged." |
| Ronald Reagan |
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| Quotation 5 : | FREEDOM
"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." |
| Nelson Mandela |
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| Quotation 6 : | FREEDOM
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| Quotation 7 : | FREEDOM
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am" |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Quotation 8 : | FREEDOM
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 9 : | FREEDOM
"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit." |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Quotation 10 : | FREEDOM
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." |
| Albert Camus |
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| Quotation 11 : | FREEDOM
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." |
| Soren Kierkegaard |
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| Quotation 12 : | FREEDOM
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness." |
| Robert Frost |
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| Quotation 13 : | FREEDOM
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| Quotation 14 : | FREEDOM
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment." |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Quotation 15 : | FREEDOM
"We must be willing to pay a price for freedom." |
| H. L. Mencken |
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| Quotation 16 : | FREEDOM
"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people." |
| John Adams |
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| Quotation 17 : | FREEDOM
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." |
| Gloria Steinem |
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| Quotation 18 : | FREEDOM
"One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does" |
| Brian L. Weiss |
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| Quotation 19 : | FREEDOM
"Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak." |
| Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati |
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| Quotation 20 : | FREEDOM
"A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for" |
| Wendell Berry |
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| Quotation 21 : | FREEDOM
"The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 22 : | FREEDOM
"The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves." |
| David Jeremiah |
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| Quotation 23 : | FREEDOM
"Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity" |
| Tony Samara |
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| Quotation 24 : | FREEDOM
"There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If we allow ourselves and everyone else the freedom to fully individuate as spiritual beings in hum" |
| Anthon St. Maarten |
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| Quotation 25 : | FREEDOM
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or men" |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| Quotation 26 : | FREEDOM
"Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together." |
| Robin Craig Clark |
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| Quotation 27 : | FREEDOM
"There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to b" |
| Mark Epstein |
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| Quotation 28 : | FREEDOM
"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 29 : | FREEDOM
"Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once you've found your true inner guru you can never again be divided. Perfect union with the divine, through the grace of your rea" |
| Zeena Schreck |
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| Quotation 30 : | FREEDOM
"When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing" |
| Jack Kornfield |
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| Quotation 31 : | FREEDOM
"Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character." |
| Charles Finney |
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| Quotation 32 : | FREEDOM
"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless w" |
| Frederick Buechner |
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| Quotation 33 : | FREEDOM
"Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed." |
| George Macdonald |
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| Quotation 34 : | FREEDOM
"Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee." |
| Hannah More |
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| Quotation 35 : | FREEDOM
"Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a min" |
| Isaac Watts |
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| Quotation 36 : | LIBERATION
"Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me." |
| Bette Davis |
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| Quotation 37 : | LIBERATION
"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within." |
| Sandra Cisneros |
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| Quotation 38 : | LIBERATION
"If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?" |
| Kabir |
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| Quotation 39 : | LIBERATION
"Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far." |
| Louis Farrakhan |
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| Quotation 40 : | LIBERATION
"We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people." |
| Louis Farrakhan |
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| Quotation 41 : | LIBERATION
"I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists." |
| Nelson Mandela |
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| Quotation 42 : | LIBERATION
"As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism." |
| Angela Davis |
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| Quotation 43 : | LIBERATION
"It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!" |
| Anthony de Mello |
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| Quotation 44 : | LIBERATION
"A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation." |
| Stanislav Grof |
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| Quotation 45 : | LIBERATION
"The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of sl" |
| Jonathan Sacks |
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| Quotation 46 : | LIBERATION
"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death." |
| R. D. Laing |
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| Quotation 47 : | LIBERATION
"I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people." |
| Jasmine Guy |
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| Quotation 48 : | LIBERATION
"The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world." |
| Nelson Mandela |
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| Quotation 49 : | LIBERATION
"But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation." |
| George Jackson |
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| Quotation 50 : | LIBERATION
"And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation." |
| Angela Davis |
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| Quotation 51 : | LIBERATION
"What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself." |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Quotation 52 : | LIBERATION
"The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water." |
| Thích Nhất Hạnh |
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| Quotation 53 : | LIBERATION
"Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness." |
| Wilhelm Reich |
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| Quotation 54 : | LIBERATION
"But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself." |
| Jane Fonda |
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| Quotation 55 : | LIBERATION
"It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates." |
| Nisargadatta Maharaj |
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| Quotation 56 : | LIBERATION
"Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation." |
| A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda |
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| Quotation 57 : | LIBERATION
"So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spont" |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 58 : | LIBERATION
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free." |
| Jiddu Krishnamurti |
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| Quotation 59 : | LIBERATION
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred." |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| Quotation 60 : | LIBERATION
"As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention." |
| Gregory Maguire |
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| Quotation 61 : | LIBERATION
"I'm a spiritual person, she said. I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in" |
| Michael Muhammad Knight |
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| Quotation 62 : | LIBERATION
"Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is" |
| Aurora Levins Morales |
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| Quotation 63 : | LIBERATION
"Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the d" |
| Ramana Maharshi |
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| Quotation 64 : | LIBERATION
"Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody." |
| Zeena Schreck |
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| Quotation 65 : | LIBERATION
"Mother Nature is our teacher—reconnecting us with Spirit, waking us up and liberating our hearts. When we can transcend our fear of the creatures of the forest, then we become one with all that is; we enter a unity of existence with our relatives—the anim" |
| Sylvia Dolson |
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| Quotation 66 : | LIBERATION
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid put" |
| Lao Tzu |
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| Quotation 67 : | LIBERATION
"The tender plant of spirituality will die if exposed too early to the action of a constant change of ideas and ideals. Many people, in the name of what may be called religious liberalism, may be seen feeding their idle curiosity with a continuous successi" |
| Swami Vivekananda |
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| Quotation 68 : | LIBERATION
"What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that." |
| Eckhart Tolle |
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| Quotation 69 : | LIBERATION
"Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself." |
| Daisaku Ikeda |
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| Quotation 70 : | LIBERATION
"To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, h" |
| Timothy Keller |
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| Quotation 71 : | LIBERATION
"Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man." |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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| Quotation 72 : | LIBERATION
"The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm" |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 73 : | LIBERATION
"The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with it" |
| Emma Goldman |
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| Quotation 74 : | LIBERATION
"Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing." |
| Thích Nhất Hạnh |
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| Quotation 75 : | LIBERATION
"This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard." |
| J.K. Rowling |
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| Quotation 76 : | LIBERATION
"The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow" |
| R. Kent Hughes |
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| Quotation 77 : | LIBERATION
"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation." |
| Alex Grey |
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| Quotation 78 : | LIBERATION
"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character." |
| John Ciardi |
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| Quotation 79 : | LIBERATION
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology." |
| Jean Genet |
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| Quotation 80 : | LIBERATION
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation." |
| Theodore Bikel |
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| Quotation 81 : | LIBERATION
"For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life." |
| Stanislav Grof |
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| Quotation 82 : | LIBERTY
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Quotation 83 : | LIBERTY
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." |
| Plato |
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| Quotation 84 : | LIBERTY
"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." |
| Robert Green Ingersoll |
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| Quotation 85 : | LIBERTY
"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life." |
| Thomas Hobbes |
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| Quotation 86 : | LIBERTY
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." |
| Alexander Hamilton |
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| Quotation 87 : | LIBERTY
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Quotation 88 : | LIBERTY
"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty." |
| Ho Chi Minh |
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| Quotation 89 : | LIBERTY
"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty." |
| Charles de Montesquieu |
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| Quotation 90 : | LIBERTY
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it." |
| Frances Wright |
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| Quotation 91 : | LIBERTY
"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people." |
| John Adams |
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| Quotation 92 : | LIBERTY
"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity." |
| B. R. Ambedkar |
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| Quotation 93 : | LIBERTY
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." |
| James Madison |
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| Quotation 94 : | LIBERTY
"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule." |
| Samuel Adams |
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| Quotation 95 : | LIBERTY
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." |
| Khalil Gibran |
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