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"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death." »Cicero
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"Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." »Samuel Adams
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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen." »Samuel Adams
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"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!" »Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us" »Andrew Schneider
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"freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt." »Bergen
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"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions." »Anais Nin
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels" »Theodor Herzl
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"[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!" »Theodor Herzl
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"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude." »Cicero
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"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it." »Albert Camus
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"Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude." »Friedrich August von Hayek
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"God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse." »Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." »Socrates
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." »Kierkegaard
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"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." »Mark Twain
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"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, Following the Equator (1897)
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"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." »Mark Twain
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"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
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"The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit" »Heinrich Heine
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"freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." »Benjamin Cardozo
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"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent." »J. Krishnamurti
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"freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel
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"Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon
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"freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this “ freedom” give “big brother”, the opportunity to dictate our way of life???" »Larry Levesque
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." »Erich Fromm
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