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"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom
112 people liked it

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, slackers
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"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger; well there is such a thing as food; a duckling wants to swim; well there is such a thing as water, etc. If I find myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

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"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: inspirational
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"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god
32 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
1,172 people liked it

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
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"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: truth
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"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics
133 people liked it

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."
— Thomas Paine

tags: blessings, freedom, liberty
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"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!"
— Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia)

tags: freedom, history, liberty, politics, slavery
27 people liked it

"In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy."
— George Washington

tags: 1795, christmas, democracy, freedom, justice, letter, politics, religion
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"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy."
— Daniel Webster

tags: freedom, government
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"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
— Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom
54 people liked it

"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: freedom
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"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."
— C.S. Lewis

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"While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.'"
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

tags: morality, morals, nature
5 people liked it

"Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons."
— Ron Paul

tags: freedom
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"The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
— Horace Greeley

tags: bible, freedom, principles
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"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it."
— Patrick Henry

tags: courage, freedom, honesty, revolution, truth
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"No people can be both ignorant and free."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom
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"The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which doesnot believe in rights for anybody except the State. "
— Harry S. Truman

tags: freedom, politics
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""When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.""
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, inspiration, liberty, states, strength, terror, tyranny, united, war
8 people liked it

"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: liberty, security
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"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."
— George MacDonald (Lilith)

tags: freedom
8 people liked it

"Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine."
— Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason)

tags: church, freedom, liberty, religion, separation, skepticism, state
7 people liked it

"...someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day."
— Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)

tags: cooperation, freedom, good, justice, liberty, will
10 people liked it

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. "
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: freedom, security
9 people liked it

"The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today's world but for a better one to come. There is no purpose more noble than for us to sustain and celebrate life in a turbulent world, and that is what we must do now. We have no higher duty, no greater cause as humans. Life and the preservation of freedom to live it in dignity is what we are on this Earth to do. Everything we work to achieve must seek that end so that some day our prime ministers, our premiers, our presidents, and our general secretaries will talk not of war and peace, but only of peace."
— Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)

tags: freedom, life, peace
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"If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand."
— Ronald Reagan (The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom)

tags: freedom, peace
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"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, inspirational, liberty
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
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"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom
81 people liked it

"It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
— Horace Greeley

tags: freedom, god, law, liberty, oppression, slavery, truth
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"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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— - Doug Larson

tags: activisim, communism, democracy, free, freedom, socialism, thinking
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"Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract)

tags: freedom
6 people liked it

"The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: choice, freedom
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"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
— José Martí

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
26 people liked it

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself."
— Harriet Nelson

tags: forgiveness, freedom, love
26 people liked it

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: deciding, freedom, liberty
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"True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace."
— Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

tags: freedom, morality, peace
13 people liked it

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: inspiration, motivation
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"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: fear, inspiration
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"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration
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"“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”"
— Mary Kay Ash

tags: inspiration, resourcefulness
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"It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
159 people liked it

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspiration
151 people liked it

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