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“Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.”

Years May Self Age Freedom Ability Childhood Old Age Being The Best Self Centered

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.”

Years Science Names Nature Freedom Poor Rich Endless Glorious Fifty Always Happy Diploma Excursions Botany

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.”

Years Able Freedom News Telling The Truth Commentators

Author:Walter Cronkite

“In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.”

Years Long Soul Country Freedom Land Pride Honor Let Me Perseverance Shade Fades Vistas

Author:John Keats

“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.”

“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Years Has Beens Young Girl Felt Wealth Freedom Marriage Poverty Five Giving Up Married Twenties Five Years Fifty Dolls Twenty One Housekeepers

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Here is the best wish for the new year: Let there be more freedom of thought throughout the world! Fields need rain; truths need freedom of thought!”

World Needs Years Wish Freedom Fields Rain New Year Freedom Of Thought New Year Wishes Best Wishes

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.”

Years Motivation Freedom Gone Years Ago Primaries

Author:Kim Jong-un

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”

People Thinking Writing Years Speak Freedom Liberty Laughing Laughter Free Speech Freedom To Choose Complete Freedom

Author:John Adams

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

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Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

“I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.”

Years Important Freedom Music Is Excellence Dedicated Classical Music

Author:Nina Simone

“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”

Men Years Term Freedom Masters Historical Slave Libertarian Anarchy Anarchist Heresy Be A Slave Limiting Government Masters And Slaves

Book:No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

“When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.”

“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.”

“How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.”

People Years Politics Freedom

Author:Bob Dylan

“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.”

Years Long Self Character Government Freedom Views Quality Development Training Bases Perseverance Restraint Self-government Self Restraint Training And Education

Author:John F. Kennedy

“A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.”

“After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."”

Years Enough Bigs Mother House Freedom Liberty Grateful Aging Possession Obsession Relieved Treasured Burglars Burglary

Author:Anne Sebba

“This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.”

Life Inspirational Years Wisdom Truth Freedom Inspire Inspirational Life Wise Words African American Life Experience I Have Learned Black Women Soul Searching Search For Truth Phenomenal Woman Searchers

Author:Maya Angelou

“If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink or not drink, there is no good reply you can give to people who say, More important than the body is the mind and the soul, and man hurts himself much more by reading bad books, by listening to bad music and looking at bad movies. Therefore it is the duty of the government to prevent people from committing those faults. And, as you know, for many hundreds of years governments and authorities velieved that it was their duty.”

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!”

Years Freedom Practice Meditation Buddhist Relief Meditation Practice

Author:Wes Nisker

“Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.”

Men Years Ideas Hate Freedom Ought

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.”