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Quotes about freedom
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude. (Sheehan Cindy)
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time. (Sheehan Cindy)
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. (Sheehan Cindy)
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. (Sheehan Cindy)
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. (Sheehan Cindy)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. (Sheehan Cindy)
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? (Sheehan Cindy)
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. (Sheehan Cindy)
The saving man becomes the free man. (Sheehan Cindy)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. (Sheehan Cindy)
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. (Sheehan Cindy)
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. (Sheehan Cindy)
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. (Sheehan Cindy)
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear. (Sheehan Cindy)
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Sheehan Cindy)
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. (Sheehan Cindy)
Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains. (Sheehan Cindy)
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. (Sheehan Cindy)
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. (Sheehan Cindy)
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. (Sheehan Cindy)
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