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Let me add, that only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud (17 April 1787)
- Virtue
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968“Extremism, Left and Right,” pt. 3, (1964)
- America
I am inclined to believe that the sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Diary (8 June 1881)
- Slavery
What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, Liberty is to the soul of man. Without it, there come suffocation, degradation and death.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Liberty
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion — except for the sect that can win political power.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Zorach v. Clauson (1952), 343 U.S. 325
- Religion
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
- Fear
America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.
George W. Bushborn 19469/11 Address to the Nation (2001)
- America
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Article for Daily Telegraph (“My Kind of Tory Party”) (30 January 1975)
- Politics
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Essays, Goethe’s Works.
- Philosophy
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998
- Truth & Lies
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A being that is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274On The Perfection of the Spiritual Life (1269-1270), Chapter 14
- Life & Death
Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.
John Locke1632–1704Second Treatise of Government, Ch. VI, sec. 57
- Laws