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“Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.”

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Author:Giuseppe Mazzini

“To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.”

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Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.”

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Author:Ralph Bunche

“Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.”

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Author:Gerard K. O'Neill

“Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.”

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Author:Gerard K. O'Neill