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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen
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A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
George Santayana
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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound
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A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
Walter Lippmann
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson
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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling
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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
E. W. Howe
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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.
James Baldwin
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W. Somerset Maugham
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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.
Jean Baudrillard
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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Aristotle
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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Charles Cooley
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman
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Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Freedom exists only with power.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Elbert Hubbard
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
John Ruskin
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Aneurin Bevan
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Hubert Humphrey
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
James Russell Lowell
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover
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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Cicero
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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Augustine of Hippo
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He who is brave is free.
Seneca the Younger
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.
Dan Quayle
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
W. Somerset Maugham
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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo Buscaglia
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Epictetus
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain
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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
Mary Caroline Richards
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
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It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.
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It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed.
Vladimir Lenin
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Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo
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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
David Lloyd George
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
David Lloyd George
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
Voltaire
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Joseph de Maistre
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
Martin Luther
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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D. H. Lawrence
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Denis Diderot
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Douglas MacArthur
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No man is free who is not a master of himself.
Epictetus
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
Charles Cooley
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides
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No one who lives in error is free.
Euripides
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
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