Adrienne Rich Quotes, Freedom Quotes, War Quotes

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

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There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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