John Milton Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Men Quotes

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

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We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.

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Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

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All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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