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“It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.”

Would Be Born Freedom Grass Reasonable Sheep

“There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.”

People Thinking Firsts Has Beens Ends Would Be Freedom Too Much Generations One Thing First Time Rate

Author:Rose Macaulay

“I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Feelings Would Be Freedom Goodness Majority Convinced Criminals Generous Villain Thieves Restraint Murderer Repression

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.”

“Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?”

Knows Would Be Freedom Arms Blow Strikes Conquest

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”

“It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.”

“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”

Knows Use Would Be Freedom Simple Learning Democracy Four Conversation Constant Simple Words

Author:Andre Maurois

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.”

People Persons Would Be Wanted Freedom Remembered Freedom Of Thought Be Remembered By

Author:Rosa Parks

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”

“Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.”

Thinking Heart Would Be Spirit Freedom Quality Moved Endure Destroyed Protest Modest Acquiescence

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.”

Should Country Hands Would Be Age America Science Freedom Youth Accounts Enthusiasm Lifts Phenomenon Monstrous

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.”

Heart Matter Would Be Order Freedom Liberty Atheism Shadow Tests Court Mere Positive Atheism Substance Censorship First Amendment Freedom To Read

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.”

People Ifs Done Would Be Freedom Streets Gun Gun Control

Author:George H. W. Bush

“No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.”

Enough Would Be Freedom Liberty Stupid Institutions Democratic Sophisticated Repression Facade

Book:Political hysteria in America: the democratic capacity for repression

Source: Political hysteria in America: the democratic capacity for repression

“Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.”

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Author:James Madison

“Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

“My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.”

Source: The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism

“Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.”

Home Would Be Freedom Inspiring Streets Security Meaningless

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

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

“The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.”

Men May Important Use Would Be Used Freedom Millions Possibility Particular Exercise Function Importance Majority Grants One Man Beneficial Being Free

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.”

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