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Quotes About Freedom

Suddenly there was a month to kill. I decided I wanted to spend it in warmth, so with a hundred bucks in my shoe (good place to hide it), I stuck out my thumb and arrived in Miami two days later.
~ Carter Alan
Suddenly there was a month to kill. I decided I wanted to spend it in warmth, so with a hundred bucks in my show (good place to hide it), I stuck out my thumb and arrived in Miami two days later.
~ Carter Alan
The education of the Negroes, then, the most important thing in the uplift of the Negroes, is almost entirely in the hands of those who have enslaved them and now segregate them.
~ Carter G. Woodson
Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.
~ Carter G. Woodson
It is strange, then, that the friends of truth and the promoters of freedom have not risen up against the present propaganda in the schools and crushed it.
~ Carter G. Woodson
One of the strong arguments for slavery was that it brought the Negro into the light of salvation. And yet the Negro today is all but lost.
~ Carter G. Woodson
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.
~ Carter Godwin Woodson
Criminals are free and make choices. Responsibility accrues and repentance is required. Among Dostoevsky's many complaints against socialism . . . was its promise to replace this radical freedom with material and mental security. Hence one of Dostoevsky's great paradoxes: the healthy, free mind demands continual destabilization and doubt if it is to exercise acts of faith, but our deeds are stable, answerable, and belong to us alone.
~ Caryl Emerson
The modern world's feverish struggle for unbridled, often unlicensed, freedom is answered by the bound, enclosed helplessness and dependence of Christ—Christ in the womb, Christ in the Host, Christ in the tomb.
~ Caryll Houselander
Remember where you are, Trooper," Chief Marshall reminded him. "This is Provincetown. Residents let their freak flag fly around here. If we investigated everyone's sexual predilections around town, Lord knows what else we'd find.
~ Casey Sherman
A person is rich when he lives a joyful balanced life with a clear understanding of the role he is intended to play during his few years on the planet. if he can give and receive love in equal measure, has health and freedom, a touch of wisdom and an unquenchable thirst for living, and on top,of that is fulfilling his true purpose , then he is indeed rich.
~ Cash Peters
Brandeis can be taken to have offered a conception of the social role of the idealized citizen. For such a citizen, active engagement in politics, at least some of the time, is a responsibility, not just an entitlement. If citizens are "inert," freedom itself is at risk. If
~ Cass R. Sunstein
If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
~ Cassandra Clare
Thesis Number 23: "The power of government should not be used to compel everyone to learn the same things in the same way at the same place at the same pace at the same age.
~ George Gilder
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise—freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view—that all ideas are determined by material relationships—is the materialist superstition.
~ George Gilder
In a free economy, a high degree of apparent randomness does not mean actual randomness. An apparently random pattern is evidence not of purposelessness but of an entrepreneurial economy full of creative surprises.
~ George Gilder
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes—governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions—all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.
~ George Gilder
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
~ George Gordon
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd
~ George Gordon Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
~ George Gordon Byron
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knocked on the head for his labours. To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan, And is always as nobly requited; Then battle fro Freedom wherever you can, And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted.
~ George Gordon Byron
Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be
~ George Gordon Byron
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~ George Gordon Byron
Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long leagues to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
~ George Gordon Byron