Freeman Quotes

• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Stupid, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Second Amendment, Use, Arms

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.180, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To freemen, threats are impotent.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Threat

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• Josh Freeman will be an MVP candidate.

  Warren Sapp

  Mvp, Josh, Candidates

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• Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Rights, Government

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
  And all are slaves besides.

  William Cowper

  Freedom, Slave

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.193

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• I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Public Service, Beggar, Jolly

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.

  William C. Bryant

  Law, Justice, Generosity

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• For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

  Thomas Paine

  Brother, Tree, Liberty

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• The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
  Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
  'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
  And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Stars, Struggle, Fighting

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25

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• We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

  James MacArthur

  Black And White, Guy, World

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• All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

  Aristotle

  Men, Excellence, Aristocracy

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• It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

  William James

  Exercise, Men, Giving

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

  Fanny Kemble

  Blessing, Names, Comfort

  Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, ch. 1, 1863.

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• A Christian is the greatest freeman in the world; he is free from the wrath of God, free from hell and damnation, from the curse of the law; but then, though he be free in these respects, yet, in regard of love, he is the greatest servant. Love abaseth him to do all the good that he can; and the more the Spirit of Christ is in us, the more it will abase us to anything wherein we can be serviceable.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Wrath, Law

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.14, Titus Books

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• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  Don Young

  Country, Government, Hands

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• Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

  James Nesbitt

  Revelations

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• I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Jobs, Fun, Years

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• Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

  Orlando Jones

  Years, Differences, Personality

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• The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Independent, Land, Class

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Kings, Men, Judging

  Samuel Rutherford, George Buchanan, Robert Macfarlan (1843). “Lex, Rex, Or, The Law and the Prince: A Dispute for the Just Prerogative of King and People: Containing the Reasons and Causes of the Most Necessary Defensive Wars of the Kingdom of Scotland. In which ... a Full Answer is Given to a Seditious Pamphlet, Entituled, Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas, Or, The Sacred and Royall Prerogative of Christian Kings”, p.51

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• Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Feelings, Arrogance, Democracy

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• In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.

  Bill Simmons

  Believe, One Day, Red

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• There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Party, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.102, Penguin

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