- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom Quotes
Freedom looks different depending on what you're free from.
Freedom shows up here in several forms - the room a genre gives an artist to take risks, the flexibility educators say they need to get real results, and the broader idea of personal liberty pushing back against overreach. For a related theme, see Courage Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can't forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that's not always for their benefit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology.
- Enshrined
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- Nov 07, 2020
Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020