freedom Quotes

“Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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“History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

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“To die hating them, that was freedom.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Thus, isness is the meaning — having freedom in its primary sense, not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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“The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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“I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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