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- Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers…
- The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
- [Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.
- It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's…
- I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
- The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war…
- Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
- To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.
- I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature…
- The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of…
- There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends…
- One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by…
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst…
- Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of…
- America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
- He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
- It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all…
- In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,…
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to…
- It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be…
- Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
- Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret.…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
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