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Freedom quotes - Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.”

“I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom. ”

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.”

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

“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.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

“I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.”

“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. ”

“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity”

“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”

“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ”

“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”

“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. ”

“The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.”

“Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.”

“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”

“Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.”

“Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. ”

Freedom quotes - Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

“Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.”