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- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense (1946)
- The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
- The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
- Frederick Chiluba
- It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.
- Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
- 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)
- People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
- Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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