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. - Epictetus
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. - Epictetus
If we're living in a free country,we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else? - Woody Harrelson
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. - Victor Hugo
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. - Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. - Abraham Lincoln
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. - Martin Luther King Jr
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. - Martin Luther King Jr
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. - Martin Luther King Jr
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