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“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”

Desire Freedom Liberty Poverty Possession Strongest Despotism Secured Fetters

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.”

Freedom Loneliness Paid Possession Expensive

Book:The letters of Martha Gellhorn

Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn

“No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.”

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

Life Freedom Money Greed Possession Materialism Simple Life Avarice Preoccupation Material Things Material Possessions Material Wealth

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”

Imagination Freedom Liberty Possession Patriotic Precious Possessions

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.”

Men World Humans Humanity Freedom Judging Possession Sincerity Uncompromising

Book:The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5

Source: The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5

“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

Values Freedom Philosophical Possession

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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."”

Years Enough Bigs Mother House Freedom Liberty Grateful Aging Possession Obsession Relieved Treasured Burglars Burglary

Author:Anne Sebba