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Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln Address to an Indiana Regiment, 1865
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Adlai Stevenson
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Alisa Wells
Now the real beginnings of the "freedom" which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me!
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Andrea Canaan
It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another: When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing.
Anonymous
If you love something, set it free.If it returns, it's yours forever.If it doesn't it was never your to begin with.
Antonio de Mendoza
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
Author Unknown
No one is free when others are oppressed.
Author Unknown
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Author Unknown
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
Author Unknown
Freedom is never free.
Baron de Montesquieu
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Bell hooks
The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
 
 
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