Freedom proverbs

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◆ Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

- Judy Blume99

◆ I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

- S.G. Tallentyre99

◆ I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

- George Orwell99

◆ There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

- Robert Green Ingersoll99

◆ America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

- Bob Marley99