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| 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. (Albert Einstein) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. (Aldous Huxley) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) | [▲] | [▼] |
| That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. (Barbara Ehrenreich) | [▲] | [▼] |
| They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security (Benjamin Franklin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (C. Wright Mills) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (Clarence Darrow) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (Dorothy Thompson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. (Dwight D. Eisenhower) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. (Edward R. Murrow) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. (Epictetus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. (Eugene V. Debs) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Freedom is like taking a bath - you have to keep doing it every day! (Florynce Kennedy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) | [▲] | [▼] |
| True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. (Frederick Douglass) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. (H. L. Mencken) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. (H. L. Mencken) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. (Henry David Thoreau) | [▲] | [▼] |