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“Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.”

Ifs Mean Children Use Would Be Dies Left Born Liberty Baby Goodness Waste Organization Structure Useless Vain Starvation Nourishment Cornerstones

Book:Montessori's Own Handbook

Source: Montessori's Own Handbook

“No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.”

Knows Made Enough Shows Pleasure Liberty Moral Too Much Fortune Slave Casts Ignorant Vain Glances Boast Cowardly Being Free

Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.”

Men Long Natural Liberty Atheism Long Time Slavery Lays Terror Positive Atheism Tyranny Vain Fancy Length Greece Phantoms

Author:Lucretius

“I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty, both in America and Europe, and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man. He converses extremely well; and I find him wittier in discourse than in his writings, where his humour is clumsy enough.”

Source: The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone. 1763-1798; Ed. with an Introduction by R. Barry O'Brien

“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.”

Sometimes Earth America Names Liberty Gone Please Equal Vain Curse Sigh Stamps Decree Foam Liberty And Equality

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.”

People Giving Ends America Justice Liberty Dying Happenings Vain Bargains

Author:Colin Kaepernick