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“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

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Book:Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy

Source: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”

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Book:The Portable Edmund Burke

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

“the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.”

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Author:Adam Michnik

“It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.”

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Author:Richard Henry Lee

“True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne