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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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individuality
strength
liberty
uniqueness
human-nature
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Henry David Thoreau |
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0db84a7
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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
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independence
inspirational
anarchism
liberty
independent-thought
revolution
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Emma Goldman |
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8253b4f
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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responsibility
liberty
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George Bernard Shaw |
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
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politics
education
liberty
government
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Thomas Jefferson |
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Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
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unalienable-rights
patriot
liberty
rights
patriotism
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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"What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you."
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life
love
soulmates
liberty
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Lisa Kleypas |
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418f069
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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liberty
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Kahlil Gibran |
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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freedom
liberty
will
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato? Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a sculptor. Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have no need to be reminded. Plato: That is correct. Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
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words-of-wisdom
philosophical
freedom
philosophy
wisdom
catholic-author
citizens
civil-liberty
free-country
gadfly
philosophers
plato
socrates
liberty
christian
freedom-of-thought
thought-provoking
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E.A. Bucchianeri |
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I have always been interested in this . My father had a set of 's books on the shelf at home. I must have opened the covers about the time I was 13. And I can still remember the flash of enlightenment which shone from his pages. It was a revelation, indeed, to encounter his views on political and religious matters, so different from the views of many people around us. Of course I did not understand him very well, but his sincerity and ardor made an impression upon me that nothing has ever served to lessen. I have heard it said that borrowed from Montesquieu and . Maybe he had read them both and learned something from each. I do not know. But I doubt that ever borrowed a line from any man... Many a person who could not comprehend , and would be puzzled by , could understand as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp. There is nothing false, little that is subtle, and an impressive lack of the negative in . He literally cried to his reader for a comprehending hour, and then filled that hour with such sagacious reasoning as we find surpassed nowhere else in American letters - seldom in any school of writing. would have been the last to look upon himself as a man of letters. Liberty was the dear companion of his heart; truth in all things his object. ...we, perhaps, remember him best for his declaration: 'The world is my country; to do good my religion.' Again we see the spontaneous genius at work in 'The Rights of Man', and that genius busy at his favorite task - liberty. Written hurriedly and in the heat of controversy, 'The Rights of Man' yet compares favorably with classical models, and in some places rises to vaulting heights. Its appearance outmatched events attending 's effort in his 'Reflections'. Instantly the English public caught hold of this new contribution. It was more than a defense of liberty; it was a world declaration of what had declared before in the Colonies. His reasoning was so cogent, his command of the subject so broad, that his legion of enemies found it hard to answer him. ' is quite right,' said Pitt, the Prime Minister, 'but if I were to encourage his views we should have a bloody revolution.' Here we see the progressive quality of 's genius at its best. 'The Rights of Man' amplified and reasserted what already had been said in 'Common Sense', with now a greater force and the power of a maturing mind. Just when was at the height of his renown, an indictment for treason confronted him. About the same time he was elected a member of the Revolutionary Assembly and escaped to France. So little did he know of the French tongue that addresses to his constituents had to be translated by an interpreter. But he sat in the assembly. Shrinking from the guillotine, he encountered 's enmity, and presently found himself in prison, facing that dread instrument. But his imprisonment was fertile. Already he had written the first part of 'The Age of Reason' and now turned his time to the latter part. Presently his second escape cheated Robespierre of vengeance, and in the course of events 'The Age of Reason' appeared. Instantly it became a source of contention which still endures. returned to the United States a little broken, and went to live at his home in New Rochelle - a public gift. Many of his old companions in the struggle for liberty avoided him, and he was publicly condemned by the unthinking. { }
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influence
imprisonment
jean-jacques-rousseau
montesquieu
robespierre
rousseau
unthinking
french-revolution
liberty
paine
thomas-paine
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Thomas A. Edison |
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"The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." [
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criticism
freedom-of-opinion
sacrosanct-ideas
immunity
freedom-of-speech
liberty
freedom-of-thought
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Salman Rushdie |
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35cea24
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Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see.
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equality
independence
subversive
usa
liberty
democracy
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Naomi Wolf |
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5082abd
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And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.
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love
soulmates
liberty
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Lisa Kleypas |
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ec35109
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Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
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freedom
social-contract
state-of-nature
the-west
frontier
libertarianism
solidarity
mercy
liberty
individualism
liberalism
justice
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Cormac McCarthy |
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295a5ea
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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
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sex
wealth
slavery
freedom
reason
life
love
philosophy
causality
individual-rights
objective-law
volition
pursuit-of-happiness
commerce
jobs
usa
economy
rock-and-roll
crisis
economics
law
regulation
force
liberty
society
political-philosophy
constitution
government
atheism
capitalism
tyranny
trade
drugs
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Ayn Rand |
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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
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feminism
self-determination
women
morality
empowerment
encroachment
dignity
social-norms
liberty
suppression
misogyny
hypocrisy
double-standards
gender
sexuality
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Virginia Woolf |
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All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not placid but turbulent. The bazaar of conflicting was the place where freedom rang.
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liberty
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Salman Rushdie |
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fc6edc9
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In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.
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urinalysis
war-on-drugs
liberty
privacy
drugs
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Christopher Hitchens |
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0664053
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His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.
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kiss
love
sugar-daddy
liberty
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Lisa Kleypas |
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19d0988
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We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.
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liberty
society
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
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3bdb6da
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The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
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mccullough
politics-freedom-liberty
john-adams
liberty
government
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David McCullough |
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abcc823
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It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench in the name of justice, her priests, occupying her pulpits, in the name of universal love, owned stock in the slave ships, and luxuriated upon the profits of piracy and murder. It was not until the same year that the United States of America abolished the slave trade between this and other countries, but carefully preserved it as between the States. It was not until the 28th day of August, 1833, that Great Britain abolished human slavery in her colonies; and it was not until the 1st day of January, 1863, that , sustained by the sublime and heroic North, rendered our flag pure as the sky in which it floats. was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: ' .' Think how long we clung to the institution of human slavery, how long lashes upon the naked back were a legal tender for labor performed. Think of it. .
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heroic
hate
slavery
love
execration
grand
lash
monument
lincoln
united-states
profit
mercy
liberty
purity
president
tyranny
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
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c06e11a
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"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"
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philosophy
liberty
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people... There is no king or queen bee distinguished from all the others by size or figure or beauty and variety of colors in the human hive. No man has yet produced any revelation from heaven in his favor, any divine communication to govern his fellow men. Nature throws us all into the world equal and alike... The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation it is impossible they should be enslaved. Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable... There is a danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living wth power to endanger public liberty.
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slavery
liberty
government
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David McCullough |
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788b4ef
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Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. his mind went on.
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slavery
freedom
juneteenth
liberty
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Ralph Ellison |
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"Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped. In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry. It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect."
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freedom
fear
liberty
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Naomi Wolf |
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0296457
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I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.
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antiwar
liberation
iraq
iraq-war
liberty
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Christopher Hitchens |
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e6c330d
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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
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poetry
god
milton
liberty
devil
hell
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William Blake |
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b41da09
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The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.
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god
liberty
liberalism
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Fulton J. Sheen |
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158a6b2
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Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.
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wish
liberty
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Charles Simic |
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I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.
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liberty
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Charlotte Brontë |
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9e8ea4e
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...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.
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politics
darkness-at-noon
soviet-union
liberty
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Arthur Koestler |
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e24bd1c
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It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse would be unfeasible without the use of portmanteau terms--like 'Stalinism,' say--just as the most scrupulous insistence on historical forces will often have to concede to the sheer personality of a Napoleon or a Hitler. I thought then, and I think now, that Osama bin Laden was a near-flawless personification of the mentality of a real force: the force of Islamic jihad. And I also thought, and think now, that this force absolutely deserves to be called evil, and that the recent decapitation of its most notorious demagogue and organizer is to be welcomed without reserve. Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.
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history
religion
cults-of-personality
death-of-osama-bin-laden
napoleon
adolf-hitler
theocracy
osama-bin-laden
september-11-attacks
jihad
terrorism
stalinism
liberty
islam
islamism
evil
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Christopher Hitchens |
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c70d6e2
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I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
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independence
singlehood
jo-march
singleness
liberty
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Louisa May Alcott |
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0ee480c
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Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich land of ours would bestow upon us if we wished, and instead to enroll ourselves in the academy of discipline and sacrifice. Guided by these laws, our fathers for twenty generations have breathed the blessed air of freedom and have paid the bill in full when it was presented. We, their sons, can do no less.
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sacrifice
warrior-ethos
liberty
warrior
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Steven Pressfield |
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"You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship. There is a good deal of drudgery, of course; but one preserves one's moral freedom, what we call in French one's quant a soi. And when one hears good talk one can join in it without compromising any opinions but one's own; or one can listen, and answer it inwardly. Ah, good conversation--there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism--two different forms of the same self-abdication." He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette. "Voyez-vous, Monsieur, to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? But, after all, one must earn enough to pay for the garret; and I confess that to grow old as a private tutor--or a `private' anything--is almost as chilling to the imagination as a second secretaryship at Bucharest. Sometimes I feel I must make a plunge: an immense plunge. Do you suppose, for instance, there would be any opening for me in America-- in New York?"
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journalism
liberty
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Edith Wharton |
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bcec2b3
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What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
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rebellion
freedom
autonomy
liberty
laws
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G.K. Chesterton |
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d522be4
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You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here, only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces. The men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels. There you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit, because our men and women are free possessing nothing. They are free. And you, the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail, each alone, solitary with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes, the wall, the wall.
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ownership
liberty
possession
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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1d83c27
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There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.
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responsibility
liberty
self-control
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H.G. Wells |
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I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry. I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. And many have died. Many. Many. Thou canst not think how many. But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.
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war
love
madrid
maría
liberty
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Ernest Hemingway |
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ccdae90
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It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American
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morality
usa
liberty
constitution
values
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Naomi Wolf |
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076e2f3
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"Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don't recall just who gave me the quote. I placed it next to my voting card and have carried it ever since. The quote came from Elie Wiesel's book One Generation After. The quote was entitled "Why I Protest." Author Elie Wiesel tells the story of the one righteous man of Sodom, who walked the streets protesting against the injustice of this city. People made fun of him, derided him. Finally, a young person asked: "Why do you continue your protest against evil; can't you see no one is paying attention to you?" He answered, "I'll tell you why I continue. In the beginning, I thought I would change people. Today, I know I cannot. Yet, if I continue my protest, at least I will prevent others from changing me." I'm not that pessimistic that we can't change people's beliefs or that people will not respond to the message of liberty and peace. But we must always be on guard not to let others change us once we gain the confidence that we are on the right track in the search for truth." --
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politics
confidence
truth
elie-wiesel
ron-paul
liberty
peace
protest
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Ron Paul |
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d7d1dc7
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Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life.
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freedom
religion
social-science
post-apocalyptic
liberty
science-fiction
theology
mythology
tyranny
power
ideology
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Frank Herbert |
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1bdc276
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Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. As they did in Egypt, where liberty leading the masses was an earnest young woman in a black hijab.
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women
hijab
liberty
revolution
gender
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Rebecca Solnit |
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300d6c8
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leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.
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love
liberty
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Louisa May Alcott |
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dd10487
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The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whatsoever name he may be distinguished, is entrusted with the execution of the laws, the management of the revenue, and the command of the army. But, unless public liberty is protected by intrepid and vigilant guardians, the authority of so formidable a magistrate will soon degenerate into despotism. The influence of the clergy, in an age of superstition, might be usefully employed to assert the rights of mankind; but so intimate is the connection between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people. A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.
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right-to-bear-arms
church-and-state
definition
liberty
church
monarchy
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Edward Gibbon |
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143ca0f
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I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? You. But you should not have created me free.
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mankind
self-determination
freedom
humanity
liberty
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
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705c086
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Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it. This is not quite so bad as it sounds, as I am a decent, civilized, likable guy. So, shading my eyes against the blue and fiery afternoon, I began searching for ways to convince the authorities of this. Lying, I decided, was probably best.
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liberty
authority
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Roger Zelazny |
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da1e988
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The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect. More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.
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perfection
freedom
liberty
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Naomi Wolf |
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02b9c61
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Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.
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war
republic
revolt
republicans
liberty
revolution
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Victor Hugo |
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c375ac2
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You speak as though they cannot be trusted with freedom to build a future for themselves, given the opportunity. Certainly humanity as a whole shares a collective guilt for incompetency in crafting a decent future for ourselves - more often than not, we seem eager to destroy others for our own selfish gain. If you truly care for their prospects once freed, then raise a voice and a hand towards that cause! But do not condemn those who work towards the step that must be accomplished first. Liberty first must be achieved, before anything else can have any meaning. - Jo March to Kate Vaughn, on the abolition of slavery
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social-justice
slavery
freedom
liberty
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Trix Wilkins |
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0aa2d2a
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The trouble with this country...is that we are utterly surrounded by busybodies trying to stop us doing things. Or telling us what to do...Big Brother, with his ubiquitous closed-circuit cameras-which now monitored, it seemed, every square inch of public space-and his condescending imprecations and warnings, was everywhere...In his view, it was up to the individual whether or not to approach a cliff edge; it was not the Government's business.
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contemporary-society
freedom
police-state
big-government
liberty
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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6de268a
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Je voulais vous exposer mon livre aussi succinctement que possible; mais je vois qu'il me faudra y joindre encore quantite d'explications verbales. Mon expose exigera donc au moins dix soirees d'apres le nombre de chapitres de mon livre. (Il y eut quelques rires.) De plus, je dois vous prevenir que mon systeme n'est pas completement acheve. (Nouveaux rires.) Je me suis embrouille dans mes propres donnees et ma conclusion se trouve en contradiction directe avec l'idee fondamentale du systeme. Partant de la liberte illimitee, j'aboutis au despotisme illimite. J'ajoute a cela, cependant, qu'il ne peut y avoir d'autre solution du probleme que la mienne.
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philosophy
les-démons
despotism
liberty
russia
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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f6ca425
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And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful even than material advantage, the ruling group found, in the 1760s and 1770s, a wonderfully useful device. That device was the language of liberty and equality, which could unite just enough whites to fight a Revolution against England, without ending either slavery or inequality.
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liberty
revolution
loyalty
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Howard Zinn |
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We're coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more We leave our homes and firesides with bleeding hearts and sore Since poverty has been our crime, we bow to thy decree; We are the poor and have no wealth to purchase liberty.
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poverty
liberty
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Howard Zinn |
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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happiness
liberty
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Howard Zinn |
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Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength. Such things make each of us who we are. You lose that in captivity, lose yourself, and that loss saps your capacity for joy.
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satisfaction
fulfillment
liberty
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Michael J. Sullivan |
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"Jack Reed, whom The New York Times had labeled "the Bolshevik agitator," hesitated and then equivocated on the stand. But by then the defense of The Masses was plain: criticism of the government didn't amount to a desire to overthrow it. If all hostile opinion were suppressed, how could Americans believe they lived in a free country? Dissent was a safeguard to freedom, not an impediment." --
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war
independence
politics
philosophy
liberty
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Nancy Milford |