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". . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed...."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me."	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free."	Henry Louis Mencken
"A free lunch is only found in mousetraps."	John Capozzi
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."	Albert Einstein
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."	Richard Hofstadter
"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."	James Abram Garfield
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."	James Abram Garfield
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."	Peter Kropotkin
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."	Yoshimi Ishikawa
"Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom."	Forest McDonald
"An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free."	William Bolitho
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
"As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted."	Eric Idle
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Benjamin Franklin	Bergen	Bernard Iddings Bell
Bhagavad Gita	Bruce Barton	Buddha
Charles Dickens	Charles Evans Hughes	Clarence Seward Darrow
Clive Staples Lewis	Corazón Cojuangco Aquino	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
Dante Alighieri	David Hume	David Mamet
Deane Jordan	Dee W. Hock	D.H. Lawrence
Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edgar Watson Howe
Edmund Burke	Edward Everett	Elmer Holmes Davis
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	Emma Lazarus	Epictetus
Erich Fromm	Eric Hoffer	Eric Idle
Euripides	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Forest McDonald
Frank Herbert	Frank Herbert Dune	Frederick Chiluba
Frederick Douglass	Friedrich August von Hayek	George Washington
George Frederick Handel	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Golda Meir
Hal Lee Luyah	Hannah Arendt	Heinrich Heine
Henrik Ibsen	Henry Louis Mencken	Hubert H. Humphrey
Isadora Duncan	I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Madison	Jameson Green	James Abram Garfield
James Arthur Baldwin	James Brady	James Burgh
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Russel Lowell	James X. Mullen
Jawaharial Nehru	Jean Cocteau	Jesse Lair
Jiddu Krishnamurti	Jim	Joan B. Campbell
John Adams	John Milton	John Blofeld
John Capozzi	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John K. Hutchens
John Philpot Curran	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Joubert
Judge John Kane	Kaleel Jamison	Kathleen Norris
Kenneth Hildebrand	Learned Hand	Leon Blum
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton	Lord Macaulay	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Lucille Ball	Lucretius	Lyndon Baines Johnson
M. Grundler	Malcolm X	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Marie Curie	Marilyn Ferguson
Marquis de Lafayette	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Marya Mannes
Max Cavalera	Menander	Miguel de Cervantes
Milton Friedman	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Mortimer Adler
Nadia Boulanger	Napoleon Bonaparte	Noam Chomsky
Orson Scott Card	Patrick Henry	Paula Giddings
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Peter Kropotkin	Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard Bach	Richard Hofstadter
Richard Jordan	Robert Edward Lee	Robert F. Bennett
Robert Green Ingersoll	Robert Jones Burdette	Robert Macleod
Rodney Dangerfield	Samuel Adams	Senator William Grayson
Shirley Mount Hufstedler	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sir Francis Bacon
Stephen R. Covey	Storm Jameson	Sun Bear
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Ted Morgan	Theodore Roosevelt
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Paine
Thomas Babington	Thomas Mincher	Umberto Eco
Virginia Hanson	V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul	Walt(er) Elias Disney
Will Rogers	William Hazlitt	William James
William Adams	William Bolitho	William Orville Douglas
Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	Yoshimi Ishikawa
(Arthur) Clive	(Carl) Frederick Buechner	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling