#freedom

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#action #effort #energetic #exercise #force

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another. ↗

— Yahya Jammeh

#any #demonstration #discipline #freedom #high

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#courage

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#degree #freedom #going #majority #matter

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally. ↗

— Larry David

#behave #freedom #gives #i #i am

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom. ↗

— Larry David

#complete freedom #concerned #freedom #succeeding #work

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. ↗

— Angela Davis

#been #death #freedom #know #road

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#changed #country #cruel #forever #freedom

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#decades #democratic #free #freedom #history