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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do… — Thomas Hobbes
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which… — Thomas Jefferson
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a… — Herbert Spencer
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as… — Louis D. Brandeis
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they… — Wendell Phillips
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
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… — Khalil Gibran
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. — A. E. Housman
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? — Robert Breault
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts. — Byron Katie
The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior… — Carlos Castaneda
You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses. — T. Harv Eker
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown… — Ludwig von Mises
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome… — Ludwig von Mises
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and… — George Mason
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less… — Byron Katie
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… — Frederic Bastiat
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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