“Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, is mainly in need of freedom.”
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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
“I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.”
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
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“This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.”