The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
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Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own defence.
more Lord Acton quotes
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.
more Samuel Adams quotes
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
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Slow and steady wins the race.
more Aesop quotes
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
more Florence Ellinwood Allen quotes
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means to push back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge.
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Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.
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For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.
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This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.
more Bruno Bettelheim quotes
Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.
more Justice Louis D. Brandeis quotes
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
more Ashleigh Brilliant quotes
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?
more Robert Browning quotes
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
more Pearl S. Buck quotes
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
more Buddha quotes
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
more Lord Byron quotes
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
more Albert Camus quotes
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
more Hodding Carter quotes
Our duty, as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
more Pierre Teilhard de Chardin quotes
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.  But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
more Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
more Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes
I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead.
more Davy Crockett quotes
I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.
more Davy Crockett quotes
To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
more e. e. cummings quotes
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.
more Clarence S. Darrow quotes
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. The modern world is the child of doubt and inquiry, as the ancient world was the child of fear and faith.
more Clarence S. Darrow quotes
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
more Miguel de Unamuno quotes
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
more Frederick Douglass quotes
How wonderful the world might be if only we gave to each other all the love we claim to give to God, a thought which has been expressed time and time again, yet it still manages to resound with a poignance that is almost painful. Such a world can be ours, sisters and brothers. Let us work together to achieve it.
more John J. Dunphy quotes
Restless is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
more Thomas A. Edison quotes
Liberty is a slow fruit.
more Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
more William Faulkner quotes
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
more R. Buckminster Fuller quotes
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
more Khalil Gibran quotes
Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed.
more Josiah William Gitt quotes
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
more Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
We will either find a way or make one.
more Hannibal quotes
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
more Elizabeth Harrison quotes
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