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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Germaine Greerborn 1939The Times, London (1 February 1986)
Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
Barack Obamaborn 1961A New Beginning (June 2009)
- Ideas
There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
You are “free” only in one sense: free from education in governing your life yourself, free from self-criticism.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Listen, Little Man! (1948)
We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026“Address to the Women of America” (10 July 1971)
- Women
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Vamps and Tramps (1994), “No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality”, p. 38
- Women
What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.
Jimmy Kimmelborn 1967Post-hiatus monologue (23 September 2025)
- America
I’ve never minded being disciplined. I’d always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.
Julie Andrewsborn 1935Woman & Home (July 2000)
- Character
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Liberty
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Attributed to Kelly in: Robert Andrews Ed. (1987) The Routledge dictionary of quotations
- Journalism
When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Statement to an Indiana Regiment passing through Washington (17 March 1865)
- Clever Jabs
- Slavery
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C. (18 August 1864)
- Government
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- America
- Liberty
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Democracy
- Government
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress (1862)
- America
- Slavery