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  If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Vaccines, Jail

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• Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

  John Adams

  Patriotic, History, Generations

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.173, UPNE

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• When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.254, Vintage

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• Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Time, Winning, Way

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.758, Best Books on

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• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

  Responsibility, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Responsibility, Mind

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

  Paul Wellstone

  Fighting, Thinking, Political

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• The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

  J. William Fulbright

  Faith, Medicine, Political

  1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.

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• I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Education, Teacher, Meditation Practice

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• Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Giving, Mastery, Paint

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Two, People

  Opening Keynote Address video before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China, gos.sbc.edu. August 31, 1995.

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• Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

  Nelson Mandela

  Achievement, Reign, Sun

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Passion, Government, Political

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. and Jaime A. Castellano, Ed.D. "Talent Development for English Language Learners: Identifying and Developing Potential", November 15, 2013.

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• When they locked up the social democrats,
  I remained silent;
  I was not a social democrat.

  Martin Niemoller

  Silent, Communist, Nazi

  "First they came". Poem by Martin Niemoller,

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• What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

  Bruce Barton

  Sacrifice, Men, Individuality

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Writing, America, Liberty

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.110, Penguin

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• liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Liberty, Human Rights

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.398, Transaction Publishers

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• Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcasm, Political, Democracy

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• Liberation is not deliverance.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Liberty, Deliverance

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.121, My Ebook Publishing House

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  I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

  Geronimo

  Break Up, Native American, Light

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Peace, Life Changing

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

  Charles Dickens

  Butterfly, Liberty, Environment

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Political, Liberty

  Letter to Archibald Stewart, 23 Dec. 1791

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• I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

  Janet Frame

  Discovery, Self, Destroying

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