Monthly Archives: May 2012

Freedom and tyranny

We have to call it “freedom”: who’d want to die for “a lesser tyranny”? Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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Freedom cannot be bestowed

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To reap the blessings of freedom

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine

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For what…

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Easy in your harness

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. Robert Frost

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One must not forget

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. Robert J. McCracken

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Liberty taken for granted

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler

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Free society

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952

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Pure transparent freedom

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. Simone de Beauvoir

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Freedom

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln

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