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“What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.”

People Littles Term Freedom Liberty Break Broken Higher Notion Offense Disagreeable Saying And Doing

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.”

Use Force Freedom Higher Machines Automation

Author:Anna Brackett

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”

Humans Facts Political Given Social Process Religious Justice Freedom Levels Struggle Relationship Economic Higher Social Justice Finals Evolve Continuing Higher Level

Author:A. Philip Randolph

“One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.”

Giving States Spiritual Freedom Consciousness Higher Climbs Grants Ladders Interference States Of Consciousness

Author:Paul Twitchell

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”

“Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.”

Freedom Levels Bears Higher Prove Raises Worthy Acknowledgment

Book:Conversations with Goethe

Source: Conversations with Goethe

“Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.”

Ifs Values Freedom Consciousness Habit Higher Patterns Supreme Unconscious Your Freedom Unconsciousness Gestalt

Author:Rajneesh

“Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

“My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others.”

Life Persons Self Philosophy Freedom Principles Groups Higher Claims Deny Ownership Lives Of Others Self Ownership

Author:Ken Schoolland