QUOTES THAT COULD INSPIRE YOUR LIFE
EVERY DAY
FRIENDS & FREEDOM QUOTES

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FRIENDS :
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. "
Author : Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. "
Author : Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."
Author : Albert Camus
"The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Author : Audre Lorde
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed"
Author : Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
Author : Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Ape in Me, 1959
"Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever."
Author : Deng Ming-Dao
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
Author : George Washington

FREEDOM :
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. "
Author : Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. "
Author : Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
Author : Albert Einstein
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
Author : Benjamin Franklin
"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other."
Author : Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose."
Author : C. Wright Mills
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
Author : Justice Anthony Kennedy (1936 - )
"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."
Author : Dorothy Thompson
"Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare."
Author : Dorothy Thompson
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government."
Author : Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."
Author : Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
Author : John F. Kennedy
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Author : Samuel Adams
Daily Inspiration
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
Richard M. Devos
"La seule chose qui sépare l'homme et son désir de vivre est simplement sa volonté d'essayer et la foi qu'il a en son avenir. "
Please feel free to borrow and copy a few quotations as you need them. Just do not forget the work and time I took to find and compile these quotations. So, do not take larger sections.
Merci de tout mon coeur d'être simplement là,

Québec, Canada
Jocelyne.Chouinard@hypertelecom.net
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