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“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free” quote by Epictetus — Download Open image

“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free”

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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and…

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“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”

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What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert…

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What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people.…

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[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,…

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The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson…

Anthony Kennedy

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Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest…

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Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

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“If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity…

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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!

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It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved. Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in…

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

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A free people ought...to be armed

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