Free Men Quotes

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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech… — Louis D. Brandeis
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. — James Buchanan
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for… — Sam Houston
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men.… — Jacob Bronowski
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. — Charles de Gaulle
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction… — Nikki Giovanni
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of… — John F. Kennedy
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men. — Herbert Hoover
If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men,… — Marshall Field
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a… — Friedrich August von Hayek
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. — Chuck Baldwin
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. — Alfred Jarry
And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by… — Theodore Schultz
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. — Abraham Lincoln
Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space.… — Robert Grudin
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day… — John F. Kennedy
In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which… — Robin Morgan

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