Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Country Quotes, Freedom Quotes

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

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If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

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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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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

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There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

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