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• I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Positive, Sunshine, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Space, Apollo

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Memories, Ambition

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

  Leon Blum

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

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• Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Men, Together

  "Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts".

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.

  Don King

  Kings, Men, Years

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• It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Men

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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• Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is establish'd, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Ignorance, Men

  "The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773".

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• A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Race, Slave

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• I don't want anyone to do anything except come run, party, dance, eat, and hang with us. Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.

  Micah True

  Running, Party, Men

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• Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men

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• In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

  Robin Morgan

  Running, Giving Up, Men

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man.

  Jim Davidson

  Funny Love, Running, Night

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• Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Pride

  Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

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• Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Character, Men, Agents

  Charles Grandison Finney, George REDFORD (D.D.) (1851). “Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford”, p.29

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• Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Stress, Future

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Mean, Men

  "Capitalism and Freedom". Book by Milton Friedman, 1962.

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• And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.

  Theodore Schultz

  Philosophy, Men, People

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• A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, People, Hatred

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• Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

  Erich Fromm

  Insecure, Men, Thinking

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.196, Routledge

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• We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Appreciate, Individuality

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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  Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Men, Voting

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.410, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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.

  Mirabeau B. Lamar

  Education, Money, Men

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• Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

  Ronald Reagan

  Courage, War, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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