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Quotes about freedom
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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. (Sheehan Cindy)
A forest bird never wants a cage. (Sheehan Cindy)
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. (Sheehan Cindy)
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. (Sheehan Cindy)
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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid. (Sheehan Cindy)
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. (Sheehan Cindy)
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. (Sheehan Cindy)
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere. (Sheehan Cindy)
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. (Sheehan Cindy)
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. (Sheehan Cindy)
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. (Sheehan Cindy)
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Sheehan Cindy)
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. (Sheehan Cindy)
There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. (Sheehan Cindy)
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom. (Sheehan Cindy)
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. (Sheehan Cindy)
It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. (Sheehan Cindy)
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want? (Sheehan Cindy)
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. (Sheehan Cindy)
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. (Sheehan Cindy)
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