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| Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. | | Frederick Douglass | |
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| To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. | | Thomas Paine | |
| True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard. | | Voltaire | |
| We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| 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 | |
| We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. | | Frank Herbert | |
| While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important | | Walter Lippmann | |
| While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all | | Oscar Wilde | |
| While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. | | Stephen R. Covey | |
| Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe. | | Horace | |
| Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been ro | | Horace | |
| You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. | | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 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. | | Clarence Darrow | |
