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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
Prevail
Freedom
Minority
Men
Setting
Minds
Rather
Take
Majority
Does
Tireless
Keen
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre
Freedom
People
Tyranny
Secret
Lies
Educating
Whereas
The Secret Of
Them
Ignorant
Keeping
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom
You
Been
Done
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
Liu Xiaobo
Life
Wisdom
Death
Freedom
Democracy
Humanity
Progress
Hatred
Poison
Nation
Tolerance
Society
Destroy
Corrosive
Life And Death
Spirit
Mentality
Struggles
Brutal
Block
Person
Conscience
Enmity
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II
Freedom
Ought
Consists
Having
Like
Doing
Right
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Eckhart Tolle
Love
Freedom
Noise
Yourself
Joy
Stillness
Pain
Mental
Know
Know Yourself
Underneath
Salvation
Being
Thinker
Enlightenment
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
Government
Freedom
History
Liberty
Power
Increase
Never
Come
Limitations
Always
Subjects
Governmental Power
The History Of
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore
Love
Freedom
Claim
Possession
Gives
Does
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
God
Freedom
Long
Others
Rule
Those
Retain
Deny
Just
Cannot
Themselves
Who
Deserve
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work
Freedom
You
Man
Change
Struggle
Ride
Back
Our
Unless
Bent
Backs
Must
Through
Does
Inevitability
Continuous
Roll
Wheels
Straighten
Your
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
Freedom
You
Yourself
Fear
Free
Power
Vanishes
After
Your
Expose
Shrinks
Deepest
When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Milton Friedman
Government
Good
Freedom
Active
Good Intentions
Tries
Cost
Morality
Pursuit
Come
Economy
Inefficiency
Motivation
Referee
Loss
Legislate
Lack
Intentions
Interests
Should
Rearrange
Help
Special
Special Interests
Player
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass
Freedom
Progress
Black
Party
Other
Never
Am
Than
Intend
Any
Dyed
Wool
Republican
Belong
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
Freedom
People
Will
Rulers
Liberties
Secure
Never
Concealed
Were
Nor
May
Transactions
Them
Ever
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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom
People
Job
Independence
Made
Hungry
Out
Security
Economic
Individual
Individual Freedom
Economic Security
True
Stuff
Without
Exist
Dictatorships
Cannot
Which
Who
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
Charles B. Rangel
Veterans Day
Day
Freedom
Democracy
Veterans
Made
Country
Our
Honoring
Sacrifices
Name
Very
Many
Foundation
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom
Free
Live
Others
Way
Respects
Cast
Merely
Off
Chains
Enhances
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
Freedom
People
Responsibility
Most
Involves
Because
Frightened
Want
Really
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
Death
Freedom
Walk
Will
Before
Our
Valley
Easy
Shadow
Through
Reach
Pass
Mountaintop
Anywhere
Again
Us
Many
Desires
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
Alone
Freedom
Me
Matter
Free
Too
Everything
Rules
Responsible
Find
Morally
Obnoxious
Know
Because
Am
Surround
Break
Them
Tolerable
Tolerate
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Love
Alone
Freedom
Man
Solitude
Will
Free
Long
Only
He
Himself
Does
Really
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
Success
Hope
Adversity
Home
Freedom
Broken
Democracy
Will
Honors
Carries
Neither
Disappear
Israel
Demoralized
Shield
Nor
Child
Brave
Order
Endure
Created
Sword
Flourish
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison
Freedom
You
Reality
Mask
Important
Kind
Ability
Give
Exchange
Put
Feel
Most
Trade
Up
Role
The Most Important
Really
Your
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Love
Freedom
Vote
Ride
Liberty
Sunshine
Space
Will
Men
Beauty
Believe
Enjoy
Thinking
Dreaming
Kingdom
Color
Arms
Souls
Friends
Breathe
Working
Choose
Railroads
Right
Stretch
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom
Responsibility
Rich
Enrich
Further
Weaker
Cost
Powerful
New
Name
Empower
Globalization
Protest
Does
Often
Where
Themselves
Poorer
Means
Now
Universal
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
Coretta Scott King
Freedom
Struggle
Song
Fear
Overcome
Finding
About
Purpose
Self
How
Causes
Up
Than
Bigger
Story
Stand
Stand Up
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