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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”

Mind Wells Home Wisdom Body Motivational House Liberty Fire Food Educational Home Is Where The Heart Is House And Home Home Place Comfort Of Home

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”

Men Liberty Fire Protect Speech Theater Protection Civil Rights Panic Free Speech Shouting

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.”

Years Mind Political Liberty Fire Century Revolution Slavery Hopefully Thinker Surprising Barbarism French Revolution

Book:The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte

Source: The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte

“To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.”

Problem Answers Liberty Cases Fire Mankind Circumstances Offers Solutions Universal Bad Things Irrational Good And Bad

Author:James Fitzjames Stephen

“In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.”

“Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.”

Religion Liberty Fire Conscience Opposites Assuming Selling Pope Indulgence Despotism Counterfeit Toleration Withholding Fagots

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.”

Source: Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches

“Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”

Pleasure Liberty Fire Comfort Pleasant Nobility Convenience Temperature Consuming Bourgeois

Author:Hermann Hesse

“We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.”

Looks Evil Simple Liberty Fire Crime Judging Disease Charity Oil Treated Iron Hospitals Physicians Sublime

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)