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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."	(Arthur) Clive
"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."	(Carl) Frederick Buechner
"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."	A. J. Liebling
"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."	Abraham Lincoln
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the 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, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."	Abraham Lincoln
"The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar."	Abraham Lincoln
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name-liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names-liberty and tyranny."	Abraham Lincoln
"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."	Albert Camus
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."	Albert Einstein
"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action."	Albert Einstein
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."	Albert Einstein
"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
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."	Albert Einstein
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."	Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."	Albert Einstein
"We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free."	Aldo Leopold
"Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television."	Aldo Leopold
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"	Alighieri Dante
"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another: When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing."	Andrea Canaan
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Bergen	Bernard Iddings Bell	Bhagavad Gita
Bruce Barton	Buddha	Carlos Castaneda
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	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 Bernard Shaw	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	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
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Ted Morgan	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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
(Arthur) Clive	(Carl) Frederick Buechner	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling