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“Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.”

Knows Turns Freedom Poet Claims Dare Painter License Indulgence

Author:Horace

“Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.”

Feelings Turns Freedom Painting Depends

Book:Blue Dog Man

Source: Blue Dog Man

“Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.”

Turns Freedom Steps Feet

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies”

“And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?”

Men Certain Turns Freedom White Slavery Forgotten Demon Tyrants Doomed White Man Bondage Everlasting

Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.”

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

People Ifs Political Turns Freedom Decision Behinds Democracy Fire Election Voting Democracies Have Election Day Voting And Democracy Blisters Elections And Voting

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.”

Men Turns Freedom Democracy Position Weak Villain Weak Man

Author:Dmitry Pisarev

“The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.”

States Law Turns Freedom Forever Democracy Goes On Limits Economics Libertarian Expansion Turn-on

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.”

Made Turns Freedom Land Walking Highways Hippie

Book:Every 100 Years - The Woody Guthrie Centennial Songbook: 100 Years - 100 Songs

Source: Every 100 Years - The Woody Guthrie Centennial Songbook: 100 Years - 100 Songs

“Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices.”

“Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.”

“Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.”

Heart Hands Turns Freedom Situation Inspire Involved Open Your Heart

Author:Marianne Williamson

“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

“Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?”

Feels Night Turns Freedom Creative Broken Standing Prison Chains Realization Your Freedom Starry Night

Author:Rajneesh

“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.”