#PERSONAL FREEDOM QUOTES FREE#

Ĭlarence Darrow Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. Kennedy Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. Safety Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. Įdmund Burke They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Īrguments The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Mahatma Gandhi Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. Eisenhower I am a lover of my own liberty and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. ĭuty History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Īlbert Einstein Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Īesop Fables Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

#PERSONAL FREEDOM QUOTES FREE#

Mahatma Gandhi Better starve free than be a fat slave. Self-improvement Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Ĭomfort Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Government If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. Health conscience happiness Good government is no substitute for self-government. Jewish proverbs proverbs Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. īeliefs You can cage a bird, but you cannot make him sing. Then all things can be freely commanded in the mind. īeliefs In order to be free I must not believe anything.

Therefore you have given up a portion of your freedom, and freedom is the dearest thing we've got. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. Hopeful adversity attitude choice positive My technique, which I recommend to you, is don't believe anything. King's speech 'The Birth of a New Nation', delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama on 7 April 1959)Ĭivil rights movement Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. King's speech 'The Birth of a New Nation', delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama on 7 April 1958)Ĭivil rights movement Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance. And that is where the strong resistance comes. For the oppressor has you in domination because he plans to keep you there, and he never voluntarily gives it up. King's speech 'The Birth of a New Nation', delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama on 7 April 1957)Ĭivil rights movement Freedom is never given to anybody. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Ronald Reagan The oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. įuture technology Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls 'turn-key totalitarianism'. Ībolition African-Americans slavery A good way to invent the future is to predict it. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom.

Slavery personal African-Americans I had crossed the line. Īfrican-Americans slavery abolition I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Opinions I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other. Most popular freedom quotes Everyone has the right to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.

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