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Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998
- Truth & Lies
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973We Shall Overcome (1965)
- History
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (2 of 3)In context
- Patriotism
- Religion
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use⁠—silence, exile and cunning.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Art
- Religion
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
Carl Jung1875–1961Paracelsus the Physician (1942)
All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matters.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804What is Enlightenment? (1784)
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Attributed to Kelly in: Robert Andrews Ed. (1987) The Routledge dictionary of quotations
- Journalism
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Liberty
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at Vanderbilt University
- Education
- Liberty
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- America
- Liberty
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- America
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Third State of the Union Address
- War & Peace
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Meaning of Events in Cuba (18 April 1961).
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at the University of Washington
- Character
Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right — not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Cuban Missile Crisis speech
- War & Peace