Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. – Desmond Tutu
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. – Alexis de Tocqueville
The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans – but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago. – James Carlton
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. … There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation. – Margaret Thatcher
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. – George Washington
Injustice in the end produces independence. – Voltaire
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. – Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is not a privilege. It’s a right to choose.
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. – Toni Morrison
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. – Malcolm X
Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom. – Santosh Kalwar
As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free. – Charlie Chaplin
If other people do not understand our behavior – so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself – to his reason and his conscience – and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation. – Erich Fromm
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you let anyone tie your wings with strings, you can never fly in the sky! Your independence, your freedom is your biggest gift. – RVM
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. – Martin Luther King Jr.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell
That’s the flip side of freedom; When you’re completely free, you’re also completely on your own. – Lauren Oliver
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. – George Orwell
Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage. – Vladimir Putin
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