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What Does Freedom Mean?: An Address Delivered at the Parrish Memorial Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, September 5, 1943

What Does Freedom Mean?: An Address Delivered at the Parrish Memorial Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, September 5, 1943 is a compilation of a significant speech given during a pivotal time in history. The address delves into the multifaceted nature of freedom, examining its historical significance and philosophical implications. The text is a testament to the speaker's insights and the importance of the topic during the period of its delivery. more

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Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler, born on April 2, 1862, and died on December 7, 1947, was an American diplomat renowned for his contributions to the field of diplomacy and the development of international relations theory. more

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“Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.”

“Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.”

“A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.”