Free Man Quotes - Page 12

• Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Memories, Men

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• A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong

  John Frusciante

  Running, Strong, Night

  Song: Ah Yom

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• To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Years

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Condescension And, Praise

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

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• Free men stick their necks out.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Sticks, Necks

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Men, Tyrants, Feet

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Complaining, Violence

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Years, Justice

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek, The Atavism of Social Justice (ch. 5), 1978.

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• These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Men, Rational

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• In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Father, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.33, Best Books on

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• When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

  Spartacus

  Pain, Men, Winning

  "Fictional character: Spartacus". "Spartacus", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom. I owe it to their widows, to their orphans, to their mothers and their fathers, who have grieved and wept for them ..... Not only have I suffered during these long lonely wasted years. I am no less life-loving than you are. But I cannot sell the birthright of the people to be free ....... Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mother, Lonely, Father

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

  Ai Weiwei

  Travel, Men, Desire

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• A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

  Hugo Grotius

  Men, Rights, Perfect

  Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.28

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• Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Work, Men, Ease

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.471

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• [The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.

  Hal Borland

  Christmas, Teaching, Simple

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• My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man’s pride, And now it’s almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I’ve got to make things better for my son and for my tribe

  Bob Teague

  Pride, Son, Men

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• Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Fate, Men

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• In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

  George Grosz

  Military, Men, Understanding

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Passion, Men, Slave

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• To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

  Savitri Devi

  Men, Numbers, Giving

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