Quotes 5781 till 5800 of 25590.
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Freedom is baffling:
men having it often
know not they have it
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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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.
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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
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Freedom is the bread and the morning and the risen sun.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
The Natural History of Nonsense XIX -
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
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Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
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Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
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