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Freedom Quotes

"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."
Mikhail Gorbachev
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion"
Edmund Burke
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"
Edmund Burke
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails"
Leo Buscaglia
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy"
James Madison
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice"
George Eliot
"Books break the shackles of time proof that humans can work magic"
Carl Sagan
"To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy"
Aung San Suu Kyi
"If you love somebody let them go for if they return they were always yours And if they don't they never were"
Khalil Gibran
"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave"
Frederick Douglass
"To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely."
Maria Montessori
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots "
Erich Fromm
"She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"He who is brave is free"
Seneca
"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation"
Viktor E. Frankl
"A human being is a deciding being"
Viktor E. Frankl
"That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity"
George Mason
"That no free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice moderation temperance frugality and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles"
George Mason
"The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments"
George Mason