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“Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.”

People Believe Long Enough Truth Lying Freedom Knowledge Loud

Author:Adolf Hitler

“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”

Ifs Enough Freedom Liberty Fit

Author:Robert Frost

“Freedom is not enough.”

Enough Freedom 4th Of July

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.”

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Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?”

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Book:The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

“Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!”

Enough Justice Freedom Liberty

Author:Joseph Joubert

“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.”

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Book:Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

“God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.”

People Knows Way Want Enough God Christian Choices Can Do Freedom Existence Destiny Balance Hiding Delicate Evident Freedom To Choose

Author:J.P. Moreland

“There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.”

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Author:James Otis

“It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.”

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Author:Karl Popper

“To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.”

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Author:James H. Cone

“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.”

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Author:Paul Wellstone

“After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."”

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Author:Anne Sebba

“No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.”

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Book:Political hysteria in America: the democratic capacity for repression

Source: Political hysteria in America: the democratic capacity for repression

“Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.”

Should Children Enough Freedom Should Have

Author:Anna Quindlen