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easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...." | |
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Epicurus
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| "A free society is a place where it"s safe to be unpopular." | |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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| "A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any
apprenticeship for freedom." | |
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Imamu Amiri Baraka
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| "A man should never put on his good trousers when he goes out to
battle for freedom or truth." | |
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Henrik Ibsen
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| "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the
arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of
free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today"s world do not
have." | |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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| "All theory is against the freedom of the will, All experience for
it." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our
greatness is built upon our freedom is moral, not material. We have a great
ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course,
lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one,
then you ought to be taken in." | |
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Harry S. Truman
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| "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the
individual who can labor in freedom." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life, if freedom
fail?" | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, But it is
never recovered if it is once lost." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe"er
contented, never know." | |
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William Cowper
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| "Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not
free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this
city will be joined as one, and this country, and this great Continent of
Europe, in a peaceful and hopeful globe." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Freedom is no heritage. Preservation of freedom is a fresh challenge
and a fresh conquest for each generation. It is based on the religious
concept of the dignity of man. The discovery that man is free is the
greatest discovery of the ages." | |
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C. Donald Dallas
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| "Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let
us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that
is granted, all else follows." | |
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George Orwell
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| "Freedom is what you do with what"s been done to you." | |
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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| "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of
nearly every other form of freedom." | |
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Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
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| "Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself
secure." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much.
That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the
right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing
order." | |
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Robert Jackson
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| "Freedom"s just another word for nothin" left to loose. And nothin"
aint" nothin" honey, if it aint" free." | |
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Janis Joplin
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| "Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must
strike the blow?" | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the
timid." | |
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General Dwight David Eisenhower
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| "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro"s
great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White
Citizen"s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is
more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which
is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of
justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but
I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically
believes he can set the timetable for someone else"s freedom; who lives by
a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for
a "more convenient season."" | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth and Harriet
Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and Madame C.J. Walker. Because of them I can
now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to
bear great fruit." | |
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Oprah Winfrey
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| "I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely
not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!" | |
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Charles Dickens
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| "I wish that every human life might be pure transparent
freedom." | |
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Simone de Beauvoir
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| "If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum
up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of
the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental
compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the
stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and
at the same time, make them worthy to be free." | |
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Winthrop Williams Aldrich
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| "If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you"re free -
however free one can be on this planet." | |
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Theodore H. White
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| "Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he
pleases?" | |
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Persius
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| "It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free
men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them
will come centuries of further greatness to our country." | |
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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| "Live Free or Die" | |
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Unknown
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| "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition that no
people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim
is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the
water till he had learned to swim." | |
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Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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| "On the Fourth of July, 1826, America celebrated its Jubilee the
Fiftieth Anniversary of Independence. John Adams, second President of the
United States, died that day, aged ninety, while from Maine to Georgia
bells rang and cannon boomed. And on that sameday, Thomas Jefferson died
before sunset in Virginia. In their dying, in that swift, so aptly
celebrated double departure, is something which shakes an American to the
heart. It was not their great fame, their long lives or even the record of
their work that made these two seem indestructible. It was their faith,
their bounding, unquenchable faith in the future, their sure, immortal
belief that mankind, if it so desired, could be free." | |
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
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| "Only law can give us freedom." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own
nature, and is determined in its actions by itself Alone." | |
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Baruch Spinoza
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| "Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but
whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and
religious liberty." | |
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Samuel Adams
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| "Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, And that cannot be
limited without being lost." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of
all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily
defeat us." | |
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William O. Douglas
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| "RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear
freedom, keeping off the grass." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be
secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which
can secure them from want at home and against aggression from
abroad." | |
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B. E. Hutchinson
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| "The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do
than in what we are free not to do." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of
its laughter." | |
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Zero Mostel
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| "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one"s attitudes." | |
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Viktor E. Frankl
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| "The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer
? not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most
repulsive form." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "There are two freedoms ? the false where a man is free to do what he
likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought." | |
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Charles Kingsley
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| "There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom
of action." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he
does when he"s absolutely free to choose." | |
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William M. Bulger
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| "They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because
humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against
despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not
free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all
the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of
freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul." | |
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Anatoly Scharansky
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| "This man is freed from servile bands, of hope to rise, or fear to
fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, and leaving nothing, yet hath
all." | |
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Robert Herrick
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| "To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one"s
weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us
are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit.
They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense
of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of
security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To
be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble." | |
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Robyn Davidson
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| "To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one"s
responsibility as a free man." | |
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Alan Paton
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| "We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality,
when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work
of art sometimes does the artist." | |
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Henri Louis Bergson
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| "We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. ? Legum
servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus" | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room
upon the earth for honest men to live in." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of
relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb.
We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration,
on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is
in growth, in fluidity ? in freedom." | |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| "We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is
incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive
justice." | |
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F.A. Hayek
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| "We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no
half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal
opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the
market place." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create
for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice
and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument,
a thing." | |
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Archibald MacLeish
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| "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." | |
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John Adams
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| "When you have robbed a man of everything, he?s no longer in your
power. He is free again." | |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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| "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by
subduing the freeness of speech. Written when he was 16." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the
other man"s freedom. You can only be free if I am free." | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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| "You have freedom when you"re easy in your harness." | |
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Robert Frost
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