Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Men Quotes

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

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Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans -- the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."

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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

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Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

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Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

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Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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