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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."	John Adams
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."	Samuel Adams
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..."	Samuel Adams
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen."	Samuel Adams
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."	William Adams
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."	Mortimer Adler
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain."	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"	Dante Alighieri
"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven."	Woody Allen
"You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it."	Corazón Cojuangco Aquino
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."	Hannah Arendt
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."	Aristotle
"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely."	Thomas Babington
"Men in Great Place are thrice Servants: Servants of the Sovereign or State; Servants of Fame; and Servants of Business … It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be."	James Arthur Baldwin
"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."	Lucille Ball
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."	Bruce Barton
"When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred."	Sun Bear
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I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Madison
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Jean Cocteau	Jean de La Bruyère	Jesse Lair
Jesse Louis Jackson	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	Josh Billings	Judge John Kane
Kahlil Gibran	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	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
Noam Chomsky	Orson Scott Card	Patrick Henry
Paula Giddings	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Peter Kropotkin
Pete Johnson	Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Hofstadter	Richard Jordan	Robert Edward Lee
Robert F. Bennett	Robert Green Ingersoll	Robert Jones Burdette
Robert Macleod	Robert Oxton Bolt	Rodney Dangerfield
Samuel Adams	Senator William Grayson	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sir Francis Bacon	Stephen Neill
Stephen R. Covey	Storm Jameson	Sun Bear
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Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Babington	Thomas Mincher
Umberto Eco	Virginia Hanson	V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul
Walt(er) Elias Disney	William Hazlitt	William James
William Adams	William Bolitho	William Orville Douglas
Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	Yoshimi Ishikawa
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