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“Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.”

Men Way Mean Long Hard Helping Goal Freedom Gone Achieve Creating Labor Burden Reasonable Long Way Liberators

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”

May Real Hard Names Freedom Highest Understood Harsh Old Fashioned Bondage Shrinks Identical Determinism True Freedom Fatality Harsh Words

Book:The Heart of William James

Source: The Heart of William James

“As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.”

Children Ideas Ends Hard Reason Shows Individual Freedom Ability Effort Responsibility My Family Raises Chaos Urges Rejects Show Me Your Freedom Vaccinations

Author:Lindsey Graham

“It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.”

People Mean Hard Freedom Urges Parallels Deliverance Unarmed

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”

People Hard Literature Freedom Slips Away From You Advertising Agencies

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

People Knows Want Hard Politics Freedom Common Democracy Theory Politician Deserve Democracies Have Voting And Democracy

Author:H. L. Mencken

“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”

Source: A little book in C major

“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

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Book:Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”

Wells Littles Hard Feelings Wisdom Freedom Wise Tasks Kingdoms Self Control Restraint Governing Thoughts And Feelings Self Restraint

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.”

Hard Freedom Millions Drawing Chains Strain New Day

Author:Paul Robeson

“It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.”

Hard Evil Freedom Democracy Suspects

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Enough Political Fighting Freedom Liberty Battle Recognizing Stand For Something

Author:Paul Wellstone

“Freedom is a hard-bought thing.”

Author:Paul Robeson