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• In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Eye

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.840, Best Books on

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• I've been a free man.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Men

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• Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Men, Animal

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• I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

  Frank Capra

  Children, Rain, Fall

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

  John Ray

  Men, Honor, Occupation

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• The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Talking, Civilization

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• The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Men, Foundation

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Successful, Men

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2829, Modern Library

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Odds

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Eye, Men, Essence

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• Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Men, Liberty

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.524, Courier Corporation

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• We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

  George S. Clason

  Country, Men, Water

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

  Benjamin Barber

  School, Men, Jail

  Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press

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• A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

  Halldór Laxness

  Men, Independence, Meat

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• Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Bustle, Stills

  Ronald Reagan, Fred L. Israel, United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) (1987). “Ronald Reagan's Weekly Radio Addresses: The first term”, Scholarly Resources Inc

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• Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.

  Willie Nelson

  Book, Good Friend, Marijuana

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jan 14, 2012

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• The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Men, Ego

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 109, 1983.

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• I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

  Dave Sim

  Freedom, Men, Use

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• Every free man has a right to the use of the press, so he has to the use of his arms.

  Tench Coxe

  Men, Use, Arms

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• And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Fighting, Men, Puppets

  Song: The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall, Album: The Harder They Come, 1972

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• In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tyranny and unrest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Men, Israel

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• I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Retirement, Light, Feels

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• Necessitous men are not free men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men

  Fireside Chat 28 - On the State of the Union (Economic Bill of Rights), delivered 11 January 1944

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• BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Boredom, Enemy

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning... Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, New Beginnings, Heart

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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