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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.more Edmund Burke quotes |
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.more Edmund Burke quotes |
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.more Edmund Burke quotes |
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.more Edmund Burke quotes |
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell
wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.more William S. Burroughs quotes |
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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.more Lord Byron quotes |
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?more Lord Byron quotes |
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For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.more Lord Byron quotes |
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.more Lord Byron quotes |
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.more John Cage quotes |
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.more John C. Calhoun quotes |
When we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.more C. Arthur Campbell quotes |
Hope for a season bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!
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O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.more Thomas Campbell quotes |
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.more Albert Camus quotes |
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.more Albert Camus quotes |
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.more Albert Camus quotes |
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.more Albert Camus quotes |
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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.more Albert Camus quotes |
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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.more Justice Benjamin Cardozo quotes |
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We, Negro Americans,
sing with all loyal Americans:
My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
That's exactly what we mean --
from every mountain side, let freedom ring.
Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains
of Vermont and New Hampshire;
not only from the Catskills of New York;
but from the Ozarks in Arkansas,
from the Stone Mountain in Georgia,
from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
-- let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States,
but for the disinherited of all the earth --
may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside,
LET FREEDOM RING!more Rev. Archibald Carey, Jr. quotes |
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There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.more Andrew Carnegie quotes |
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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.more Charles Carroll quotes |
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.more Jimmy Carter quotes |
For good or evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.more Joyce Cary quotes |
The growth of drug-related crime is a far greater evil to society as a whole than drug taking. Even so, because we have been seduced by the idea that governments should legislate for our own good, very few people can see how dangerously absurd the present policy is.more John Casey quotes |
