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| Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. (Henry David Thoreau) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. (Jean-Paul Sartre) | [▲] | [▼] |
| No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. (Jesse Jackson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. (John Adams) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity. (John Dewey) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain. (John F. Kennedy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. (John P. Zenger) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. (1790) (John Philpot Curran) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The only part of the conduct of anyone for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. (John Stuart Mill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. (Margaret Sanger) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. (Marilyn Ferguson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have these three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to practice neither. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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 of them. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. (Mohandas K. Gandhi) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. (Molly Ivins) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we sere as willing or unwitting instruments." (Noam Chomsky) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky) | [▲] | [▼] |
| After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. (Norman Thomas) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! (Patrick Henry) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |