| "Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." »Bill Chickering |
| "Spring has sprung. We're free at last, people. Free at last. Thank you mother nature, we're free. Time to toss open that metaphysical window and check out that psychic landscape. See lots of possibilities budding out there. Time to hoe those rows, feed that seed. Pretty soon you get a garden." »Robin Green |
| "Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one." »Scottish Proverb |
| "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 |
| "If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil." »Baruch Spinoza |
| "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." »William Orville Douglas |
| "If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet." »Theodore White |
| "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno |
| "Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken." »Orson Scott Card |
| "If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain." »Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson |
| "Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent." »Heinrich Heine |
| "Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything." »Ernest J. Gaines |
| "When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so." »H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| "The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do." »Eric Hoffer |
| "Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least." »Jane Welsh Carlyle |
| "A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." »Saint Augustine |
| "All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." »David Mamet |
| "The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously." »Paul Wiener |
| "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free." »Charles Dickens |
| "O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken" »Sir Walter Scott |
| "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 |
| "There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success." »George Burton Adams |
| "Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God." »Jean Valjean |
| "Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies." »Edgar Watson Howe |
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