“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
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325 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
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“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
Dalai Lama
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
Maya Angelou · interview, USA Today, 1988
“The things that the flag stands for are created by the experiences of a great people.”
Woodrow Wilson · Flag Day address, 1917
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
Albert Camus
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman, 1903
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
George Washington · Letter to James Madison, 1788
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”
Frederick Douglass · Speech, July 5, 1852
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
Thomas Jefferson · Declaration of Independence, 1776
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Benjamin Franklin · 1755
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Nations grown corrupt love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.”
John Milton · The Ready and Easy Way, 1660
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln · Letter to Henry L. Pierce, 1859
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman, 1903
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”
Pearl S. Buck
