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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."	John Adams
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."	Samuel Adams
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..."	Samuel Adams
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen."	Samuel Adams
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."	William Adams
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."	Mortimer Adler
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain."	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"	Dante Alighieri
"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven."	Woody Allen
"You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it."	Corazón Cojuangco Aquino
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."	Hannah Arendt
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."	Aristotle
"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely."	Thomas Babington
"Men in Great Place are thrice Servants: Servants of the Sovereign or State; Servants of Fame; and Servants of Business … It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be."	James Arthur Baldwin
"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."	Lucille Ball
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."	Bruce Barton
"When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred."	Sun Bear
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Deane Jordan	Dee W. Hock	D.H. Lawrence
Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edgar Watson Howe
Edmund Burke	Edward Everett	Elmer Holmes Davis
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	Emma Lazarus	Epictetus
Erich Fromm	Eric Hoffer	Eric Idle
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Frank Herbert	Frank Herbert Dune	Frederick Chiluba
Frederick Douglass	Friedrich August von Hayek	George Washington
George Frederick Handel	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Golda Meir
Hal Lee Luyah	Hannah Arendt	Heinrich Heine
Henrik Ibsen	Henry Louis Mencken	Hubert H. Humphrey
Isadora Duncan	I Ching	James Madison
Jameson Green	James Abram Garfield	James Arthur Baldwin
James Brady	James Burgh	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
James Russel Lowell	James X. Mullen	Jawaharial Nehru
Jean Cocteau	Jesse Lair	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jim	Joan B. Campbell	John Adams
John Milton	John Blofeld	John Capozzi
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John K. Hutchens	John Philpot Curran
John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Joubert	Judge John Kane
Kaleel Jamison	Kathleen Norris	Kenneth Hildebrand
Learned Hand	Leon Blum	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Lord Macaulay	Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Lucille Ball
Lucretius	Lyndon Baines Johnson	M. Grundler
Malcolm X	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marie Curie	Marilyn Ferguson	Marquis de Lafayette
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Marya Mannes	Max Cavalera
Menander	Miguel de Cervantes	Milton Friedman
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Mortimer Adler	Nadia Boulanger
Napoleon Bonaparte	Noam Chomsky	Orson Scott Card
Patrick Henry	Paula Giddings	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Peter Kropotkin	Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Bach	Richard Hofstadter	Richard Jordan
Robert Edward Lee	Robert F. Bennett	Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Jones Burdette	Robert Macleod	Rodney Dangerfield
Samuel Adams	Senator William Grayson	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sir Francis Bacon	Stephen R. Covey
Storm Jameson	Sun Bear	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
Ted Morgan	Theodore Roosevelt	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Paine	Thomas Babington
Thomas Mincher	Umberto Eco	Virginia Hanson
V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul	Walt(er) Elias Disney	Will Rogers
William Hazlitt	William James	William Adams
William Bolitho	William Orville Douglas	Woody Allen
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	Yoshimi Ishikawa	(Arthur) Clive
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