| This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. -- Ugo Betti |
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Betti, UgoEra:
1892 |
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| Liberation is not deliverance. -- Victor Hugo |
| Author:
Hugo, VictorEra:
1802 |
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| Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. -- John Adams |
| Author:
Adams, JohnEra:
1735 |
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| Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. -- Horace |
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HoraceEra:
-65 |
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| The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. -- John Stuart Mill |
| Author:
Mill, John StuartEra:
1806 |
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| March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us. -- Barry O'Meara |
| Author:
O'Meara, BarryEra:
1786 |
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| Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author:
Russell, BertrandEra:
1872 |
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| He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. -- Baruch Spinoza |
| Author:
Spinoza, BaruchEra:
1632 |
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| freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. -- Archibald Macleish |
| Author:
Macleish, ArchibaldEra:
1892 |
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| Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. -- George Washington |
| Author:
Washington, GeorgeEra:
1732 |
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| The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -- Abraham Lincoln |
| Author:
Lincoln, AbrahamEra:
1809 |
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| He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. -- Thomas Paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -- Oliver Cromwell |
| Author:
Cromwell, OliverEra:
1599 |
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| Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. -- Edmund Burke |
| Author:
Burke, EdmundEra:
1729 |
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| People demand freedom only when they have no power. -- Friedrich W. Nietzsche |
| Author:
Nietzsche, FriedrichEra:
1844 |
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| The traveller has reached the end of the journey! -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it. -- Will Rogers |
| Author:
Rogers, WillEra:
1879 |
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| This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. -- William Jennings Bryan |
| Author:
Bryan, William J.Era:
1860 |
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| Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -- Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Author:
Sartre, Jean-PaulEra:
1905 |
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