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“I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.”

Years Science Names Nature Freedom Poor Rich Endless Glorious Fifty Always Happy Diploma Excursions Botany

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.”

Names Freedom Virtue Slavery Vices

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“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

“Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.”

People Want May Ends Spirit Names Growth Freedom Liberty Progress Substance Boon

Book:The Importance and Means of a National Literature

Source: The Importance and Means of a National Literature

“Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?”

Play Names Freedom Liberty Fool

Book:Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

Source: Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”

Way Long Motivational Names Freedom Effort Liberty Ethics Deserve Economics Libertarian Freedom Of Choice True Freedom Limiting Government Limiting Freedom

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”

Way Long Seems Spiritual Suffering Choices Names Freedom Effort Greater Mankind Health Healthy Deserve Compelling Guardian

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”

War Law Order Names Peace Freedom Democracy Historical Anti War Antiwar Law And Order Freedom Of The Press

Author:John Lindsay

“How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?”

People Christian Hate Names Freedom White Race Islam Civil Rights Domination White Supremacy Supremacy Enslavement Plunder Hate Religion

Author:Muhammad Ali

“My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.”

Names Freedom Cutting Kings Angel Wings West East Pathways East And West My Angel

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

“Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!”

War Names Freedom Liberty Crime Committed Rhinoceros

Author:Madame Roland

“The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.”

Names Freedom Liberty Breasts Daggers

Author:Jose Marti

“The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.”

Men Turns Names Freedom Half Mankind Particular Circumstances Prepared Blow Brotherhood Other Half Brotherhood Of Man

Author:R. D. Laing

“Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.”

Law Spirit Names Freedom Liberty Moral Opposites Mere Notion Definite Harmonious Moral Law Vagueness Clearness

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.”