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Quotes About Freedom

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
~ James Madison
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
~ George Mason
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
~ Lee Ann Womack
Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
~ Paula Radcliffe
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.
~ James Madison
Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!
~ Sheng-yen
You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.
~ Robert Ringer
It takes a lot of strength to let go.
~ J. C. Watts
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
~ Gene Sharp
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~ Nelson Mandela
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, shall be healed, delivered and set free. Be set free, in the name of Jesus Christ!
~ T. B. Joshua
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
~ Wendell Willkie
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
~ John Adams
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
~ Sri Aurobindo
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
~ Barbara Deming
Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.
~ Polybius
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
~ Alfred Jarry
No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.
~ Jewel
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
~ William C. Bryant
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
~ Ronald Reagan
We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times
~ Joachim Gauck