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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 4.2857 average rating  
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." John Adams 4.6667 average rating  
"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 4.7000 average rating  
"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 4.6053 average rating  
"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 4.6230 average rating  
"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 4.4375 average rating  
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men." Mortimer Adler 3.7778 average rating  
"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 4.5000 average rating  
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?" Dante Alighieri 4.1429 average rating  
"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 3.6364 average rating  
"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 4.1667 average rating  
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." Hannah Arendt 4.4545 average rating  
"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 4.6667 average rating  
"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 4.0000 average rating  
"Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely." Thomas Babington 3.3333 average rating  
"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 3.3333 average rating  
"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 4.4545 average rating  
"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 4.9500 average rating  
"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 4.2857 average rating  
"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 4.5000 average rating  
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