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- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.
- Frank H. Underhill
- Together, our nations remind the world of the boundless potential of societies that chose freedom over tyranny, and who set the free. And we will free, and we will sacrifice, and we will hope, and we will make things beautiful, especially the aspiration of your people.
- Donald Trump (1946 - ), Speech in South Korea, November 7, 2017
- Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
- Anonymous
- They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
- Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
- Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
- Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know. - Cowper
- All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. - Kipling
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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