Quotes with freedom

Quotes 461 till 480 of 520.

  • Bob Menendez We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • A. Philip Randolph We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less... This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • George Carlin Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Ben Nelson What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Bob Taft What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Archibald Macleish What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bill Hybels When I pray, I'm not just telling God my problems, but rather I'm turning over my biggest concerns to him. It's only when I've put them in his capable hands that I can go about my day in his strength and freedom.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. Russian Proverb Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Edith Hamilton When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Jacques Prevert When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bartlett Sher When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Robert Francis Kennedy Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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