"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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"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."
"Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions."
"Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression."
"We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries."
"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any"
"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi"
"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
"I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come."
"If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer."
"It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."
"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none."
"Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them."
"The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men."
"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."
"As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so."
"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well."