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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle
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What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -Thomas Jefferson
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I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

Thomas Jefferson
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. -Soren Kierkegaard
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Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost
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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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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. -Bob Dylan
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X
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He who is brave is free.

Seneca
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We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos. -John Dewey
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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
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I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Wilma Rudolph
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

Quintus Ennius
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. -Thomas Henry Huxley
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation. -James Madison
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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Charles Peguy
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Baruch Spinoza
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. -Hannah Arendt
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. -Bertrand Russell
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis
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Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo. -Georges Bidault
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