Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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"What makes America wonderful is that we're a nation with so few historical grudges that we actually like each other."
Russell Baker
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"Freedom is a very intoxicating thing."
Russell Baker
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"A person should be free to extend services in a way that doesn't hurt others."
Russell Baker
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"We confuse the freedom to speak our minds with the wisdom to know when to remain silent."
Russell Baker
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"The price of security is freedom, and it's a price that becomes more expensive every year."
Russell Baker
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"The right to be heard does not include the right to be believed."
Russell Baker
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"The more you own, the more it owns you."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"How can I be prudent if I am not free?"
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"By letting it go it all gets done; the world is won by those who let it go."
Lao Tzu
"Those attached to money are easily enslaved by it."
Lao Tzu
"Freedom is the natural state when fear releases its grip."
Lao Tzu
"The fact that there are laws to be broken gives us the impression that there is something worth dying for."
Dear Abby
"The climate is becoming a slave, subject to the whims of his master."
Blaise Pascal
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of freedom."
Blaise Pascal
"The will is never free in the sense that philosophers use the term."
Blaise Pascal
"The will is never forced."
Blaise Pascal
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"A free society requires eternal vigilance."
Mike Royko
"When you abandon what you cling to, you gain what you need."
Lao Tzu
"To hold on is to limit yourself; to let go is to expand infinitely."
Lao Tzu
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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
Wallace Matthews
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"Liberty is the right to do what you want as long as it doesn't hurt others."
Wallace Matthews
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"Freedom is the foundation upon which all of life's greatest achievements are built."
Wallace Matthews
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"With freedom comes responsibility."
Wallace Matthews
"Freedom is not free; it costs something."
Dear Abby
"Freedom comes with responsibility."
Dear Abby
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"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Ann Landers
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"If you're waiting for permission to live your life, you're already wasting it."
Ann Landers
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"Freedom isn't free; someone has to protect it."
Jimmy Breslin
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"Freedom is meaningless without responsibility."
Jimmy Breslin