"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."

Adams, John on Freedom
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"Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."

Adams, John on Freedom
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

Adams, John on Freedom
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Adams, John on Freedom
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"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."

Adler, Mortimer J. on Freedom
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"When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions."

Arendt, Hannah on Freedom
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

Aristotle on Freedom
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"Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison."

Arnold, Sir Edwin on Freedom
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"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten."

Ataturk, Kemal on Freedom
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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

Augustine, St. on Freedom
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"The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation."

Aurobindo, Ghose on Freedom
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"Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations."

Baldwin, James on Freedom
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"The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important."

Ballou, Hosea on Freedom
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"Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives."

Barbour, John on Freedom
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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."

Barton, Bruce on Freedom
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"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."

Baruch, Bernard M. on Freedom
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"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."

Baruch, Bernard M. on Freedom
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"As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats."

Baudrillard, Jean on Freedom
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"True obedience is true freedom."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Freedom
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"There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free."

Bellin, Gita on Freedom
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"Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like."

Benn, Ernest on Freedom
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"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus."

Bevan, Aneurin on Freedom
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"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."

Bhagavad Gita on Freedom
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"It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large."

Blount, Wilton M. on Freedom
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"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought."

Blum, Leon on Freedom
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