"After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal."
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"Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free."
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"Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate."
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"Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."
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"When the mind's free, The Body's delicate."
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"If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me."
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"Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?"
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"The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'."
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"Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government."
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"There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America."
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"A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation."
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"Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles."
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"Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom."
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"A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul."
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"Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom."
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"Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far."
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"Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching."
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"We are all of us the worse for too much liberty."
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"All theory is against free will; all experience is for it."
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"Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!"
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