Quotes about freedom

"Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere."

Kempis, Thomas on freedom   

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom   

"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom
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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom
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"The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means."

Kennedy, Robert F. on freedom   

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"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."

Kingsley, Charles on freedom   

"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

Kipling, Rudyard on freedom   

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

Kristofferson, Kris on freedom
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"Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody."

La Follette, Suzanne on freedom   

"Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."

Lawrence, D. H. on freedom   

"It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on freedom   

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on freedom   

"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"

Levenson, Samuel on freedom
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"What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on freedom   

"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment."

Lippmann, Walter on freedom   

"If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty."

Lovelace, Richard on freedom   

"Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye, that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!"

Lovell, Marie on freedom   

"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."

Lowell, James Russell on freedom
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"Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more."

Luther, Martin on freedom   

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."

Luxemburg, Rosa on freedom
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"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

Macarthur, Douglas on freedom
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"A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day."

Macaulay, Rose on freedom   

"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."

Macleish, Archibald on freedom
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"Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives."

Madhava, Sri on freedom   

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."

Madonna on freedom   

"He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide."

Madriaga, Salvador De on freedom   

"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free."

Maistre, Joseph De on freedom   

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary."

Malcolm X on freedom   

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

Malcolm X on freedom
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"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

Malcolm X on freedom
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"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

Malcolm X on freedom
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