Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Epictetus

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Only the educated are free.

- Epictetus

William Faulkner

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

- William Faulkner

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Benjamin Franklin

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

Mahatma Gandhi

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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Charles de Gaulle

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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.

- Charles de Gaulle

Barbara Hall

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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

- Barbara Hall

William Hazlitt

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

- William Hazlitt

Eric Hoffer

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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

- Eric Hoffer

Thomas Jefferson

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Freedom is not enough.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Soren Kierkegaard

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

- Soren Kierkegaard

D.H. Lawrence

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

- D.H. Lawrence

Abraham Lincoln

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

Walter Lippmann

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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.

- Walter Lippmann

James Madison

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

- James Madison

Mignon McLaughlin

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We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

- Mignon McLaughlin

Henry Louis Mencken

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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

- Henry Louis Mencken

Baron de Montesquieu

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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

- Baron de Montesquieu

Edward Roscoe Murrow

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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

- Edward Roscoe Murrow

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thomas Paine

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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.

- Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

- Thomas Paine

Will Rogers

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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

- Will Rogers

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Carl Schurz

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

- Carl Schurz

George Bernard Shaw

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

George Soros

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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others, Soros said. The Bush administration merely has a narrower definition of self-interest. It does not include the interests of others.

- George Soros

Robert Louis Stevenson

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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Adlai E. Stevenson

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Mark Twain

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

- Mark Twain

Daniel Webster

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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

- Daniel Webster

Woodrow Wilson

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

- Woodrow Wilson

Malcolm X

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

- Malcolm X

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X