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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.
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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.
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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
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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.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
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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.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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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.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.
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Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
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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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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.
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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
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The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.
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So free we seem, so fettered we are!
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.
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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.
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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
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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.
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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.
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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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.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.
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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
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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.
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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
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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.
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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
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So far as a person thinks; they are free.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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No man is free who is not a master of himself.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
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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.
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No one who lives in error is free.
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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
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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.
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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.
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