Quotes 601 till 620 of 621.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
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You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
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You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
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Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
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As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
For Americas Sake, speech 12 December 2006, Moyers on Democracy -
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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