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Freedom Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
- The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of…
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and…
- Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
- I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me.…
- You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
- Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to…
- The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
- Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
- The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
- I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
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