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[Quote No.41815] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know." - William Cowper
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[Quote No.41816] Need Area: Friends > General
"[In war and conflict, it's important to remember...] We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
" - Edward R. Murrow
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[Quote No.41817] Need Area: Friends > General
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." - D.H. Lawrence
Classical American Literature, 1922
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[Quote No.41818] Need Area: Friends > General
"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery." - Unknown
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[Quote No.41819] Need Area: Friends > General
"Without freedom, no one really has a name [as there can no longer be any true individuality]." - Milton Acorda
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[Quote No.41820] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." - Friedrich Nietzsche
'Twilight of the Idols', 1888.
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[Quote No.41821] Need Area: Friends > General
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." - Thomas Macaulay
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[Quote No.41823] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves... 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 Lincoln
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[Quote No.41824] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it." - John F. Kennedy
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[Quote No.41825] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best road to progress is freedom's road." - John F. Kennedy
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[Quote No.41826] Need Area: Friends > General
"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy
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[Quote No.41829] Need Area: Friends > General
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela
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[Quote No.41830] Need Area: Friends > General
"Only free men [and women] can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts." - Nelson Mandela
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[Quote No.41834] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom means you are unobstructed [by fraud or the use or threat of force] in living your life as you choose [so long as you do not defraud or use or threaten force]. Anything less is a form of slavery." - Wayne Dyer
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[Quote No.41835] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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[Quote No.41840] Need Area: Friends > General
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. [Therefore the great role for individuals and groups - including government, is to help people use their freedom to make the most of their opportunities - not to encourage them to swap their freedom for security and slavery, where someone else, who doesn't care for them as much as they do, is responsible for their welfare.]" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[Quote No.41842] Need Area: Friends > General
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility [because they have never been taught how to handle it! This is a problem with our education system, which has been set up to teach people to work well rather than to live wonderful free lives, which includes making great contributions to society through their work-service in the society]." - Sigmund Freud
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[Quote No.41859] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress." - Frederick Douglass
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[Quote No.41865] Need Area: Friends > General
"We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. [Whatever that price is, it is important to remember that the price of the alternative - slavery is always higher!]" - H. L. Mencken
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[Quote No.41866] Need Area: Friends > General
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." - James Madison
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[Quote No.41867] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.41868] Need Area: Friends > General
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. [But the strong and brave must ever fight the personal and political demons of arrogance and greed.]" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.41869] Need Area: Friends > General
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.41876] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish [so long as we do not engage in fraud, force or coercion.] " - Epictetus
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[Quote No.41878] Need Area: Friends > General
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it [through force, coercion or fraud]." - John Stuart Mill
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[Quote No.41881] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Here is an interesting opinion on democracy rather than a totally free market economy where there is on-going choice from competitive options, so long as the unalienable human rights of living withoud fraud, force and coercion are maintained by a single or better yet competitive forces:] A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters." - Lysander Spooner
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[Quote No.41882] Need Area: Friends > General
"Liberty. It’s a simple idea, but it’s also the linchpin of a complex system of values and practices: justice, prosperity, responsibility, toleration, cooperation, and peace. Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They’re called libertarians." - Libertarianism.org
[http://libertarianism.org/ ]
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[Quote No.41884] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Here is a famous parable which gives an interesting perspective on freedom, the state, government and democracy (that is state, representational democracy rather than individual, direct, free market i.e. anarcho-capitalistic, democracy):- ] Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you.
--1 There is a slave completely at the mercy of his brutal master's whims. He often is cruelly beaten, called out in the middle of the night, and so on.
--2 The master is kindlier and beats the slave only for stated infractions of his rules (not fulfilling the work quota, and so on). He gives the slave some free time.
--3 The master has a group of slaves, and he decides how things are to be allocated among them on nice grounds, taking into account their needs, merit, and so on.
--4 The master allows his slaves four days on their own and requires them to work only three days a week on his land. The rest of the time is their own.
--5 The master allows his slaves to go off and work in the city (or anywhere they wish) for wages. He requires only that they send back to him three-sevenths of their wages. He also retains the power to recall them to the plantation if some emergency threatens his land; and to raise or lower the three-sevenths amount required to be turned over to him. He further retains the right to restrict the slaves from participating in certain dangerous activities that threaten his financial return, for example, mountain climbing, cigarette smoking.
--6 The master allows all of his 10,000 slaves, except you, to vote, and the joint decision is made by all of them. There is open discussion, and so forth, among them, and they have the power to determine to what uses to put whatever percentage of your (and their) earnings they decide to take; what activities legitimately may be forbidden to you, and so on.
---- Let us pause in this sequence of cases to take stock. If the master contracts this transfer of power so that he cannot withdraw it, you have a change of master. You now have 10,000 masters instead of just one; rather you have one 10,000-headed master. Perhaps the 10,000 even will be kindlier than the benevolent master in case 2. Still, they are your master. However, still more can be done. A kindly single master (as in case 2) might allow his slave(s) to speak up and try to persuade him to make a certain decision. The 10,000-headed monster can do this also.
--7 Though still not having the vote, you are at liberty (and are given the right) to enter into the discussions of the 10,000, to try to persuade them to adopt various policies and to treat you and themselves in a certain way. They then go off to vote to decide upon policies covering the vast range of their powers.
--8 In appreciation of your useful contributions to discussion, the 10,000 allow you to vote if they are deadlocked; they commit themselves to this procedure. After the discussion you mark your vote on a slip of paper, and they go off and vote. In the eventuality that they divide evenly on some issue, 5,000 for and 5,000 against, they look at your ballot and count it in. This has never yet happened; they have never yet had occasion to open your ballot. (A single master also might commit himself to letting his slave decide any issue concerning him about which he, the master, was absolutely indifferent.)
--9 They throw your vote in with theirs. If they are exactly tied your vote carries the issue. Otherwise it makes no difference to the electoral outcome.
---- The question is: which transition from case 1 to case 9 made it no longer the tale of a slave?" - Robert Nozick
(1938 – 2002), American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. 'The Tale of the Slave', quoted from his 1974 book, 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia', pp. 290-292. (For those interested in investigating further an alternative to state, representational democracy based on individual freedom, I can recommend exploring the awareness-expanding, anarcho-capitalist classic, 'The Market for Liberty' by Linda and Morris Tannehill - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Liberty ) [http://www.duke.edu/web/philsociety/taleofslave.html]
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[Quote No.41888] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Here is an often neglected responsibility of the equality we all believe we deserve as an unalienable human right. In fact this responsibility restricts our own freedom and equality but rightly so:] You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom." - Clarence Darrow
Famous lawyer
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[Quote No.41891] Need Area: Friends > General
"Law of equal liberty:
The law of equal liberty (aka the law of equal freedom), or equal liberty, is a doctrine first named, though not first conceived, by Herbert Spencer in Social Statics (1851) which says '...that every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty to every other man.' Or, stated another way by Spencer, 'each has freedom to do all that he wills provided that he infringes not the equal freedom of any other.'[quote from his book, 'Social Statics']
This doctrine has been influential on political theorists, including classical liberals, libertarian socialists and anarcho-capitalists.
Spencer derived the principle on a belief in the principles of scientific evolution. He believed that human happiness was an intrinsically developed emotion. He held that 'man's purpose can be obtained only by the exercise of his faculties' and therefore that exercise must be a human right. Restraining the liberty of someone else prevents him from pursuing happiness. But, for this to be a universal ethic, that is, a moral code that applies to all individuals rather than just some, it would have to apply to all individuals. Therefore, if an individual restrains another individual from doing the same, then he has overstepped his rights. As a result, rights are equalized among all people.
[Refer for other universal ethics-moral code 'the unalienable human rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness and property - i.e. property rights derived from self-ownership, and equal treatment under the law.]" - Wikipedia.org
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_equal_liberty ] Retrieved 19th May, 2012.
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[Quote No.41892] Need Area: Friends > General
"The law of equal liberty (aka the law of equal freedom), or equal liberty, is an important philosophical doctrine and foundation for many freedom-based, universal, ethical - moral - social - political - legal - economic codes. It means] ...that every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty to every other man...[or stated another way]...each has freedom to do all that he wills provided that he infringes not the equal freedom of any other. [Freedom meaning the lack of any force, coercion, or fraud.]" - Herbert Spencer
(1820 – 1903), British philosopher and sociologist. Quote from his book, 'Social Statics', 1851.
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[Quote No.41893] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Equality and morality: A very important concept, with regard to this, is moral universalism - also called moral objectivism or universal morality - is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally, that is, for 'all similarly situated individuals', regardless of culture, race, sex, religion, nationality, sexuality, or any other distinguishing feature.]... the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of applying to themselves the standards they apply to others - more stringent ones, in fact - plainly cannot be taken seriously when they speak of appropriateness of response; or of right and wrong, good and evil...
In fact, one of the, maybe the most, elementary of moral principles is that of universality, that is, If something's right for me, it's right for you; if it's wrong for you, it's wrong for me. Any moral code that is even worth looking at has that at its core somehow. [Refer also the concepts of equal treatment versus equal outcome, reciprocity and mutual exchange of privileges.]" - Noam Chomsky
Linguist and political theorist. Quote from 'Terror and Just Response', 02 July 2002. [http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20020702.htm or ]
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[Quote No.41894] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Equality and morality: An important concept, with regard to this, is reciprocity:
-1- the quality or state of being reciprocal ['Give and take', 'You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours', 'Each hand washes the other', 'An eye for an eye', 'Treat others as you'd like to be treated']: mutual dependence, action, or influence;
-2- a mutual exchange of privileges; specifically: a recognition by one of two countries or institutions of the validity of licenses or privileges granted by the other.]
'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?' The Master said, 'Is not RECIPROCITY such a word?' " - Confucius
Analects XV.24
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[Quote No.41896] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity." - Herbert Hoover
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[Quote No.41899] Need Area: Friends > General
"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes [so long as don't initiate force, coercion or fraud on anyone]." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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[Quote No.41900] Need Area: Friends > General
"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.41901] Need Area: Friends > General
"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.41904] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom." - Quentin Crisp
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[Quote No.41907] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am...a worshipper of freedom...and tolerance." - Stephen Fry
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[Quote No.41908] Need Area: Friends > General
"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the [state and political] machine and make him like it." - Frank Lloyd Wright
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[Quote No.41909] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun." - William Glasser
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[Quote No.41912] Need Area: Friends > General
"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail!" - Erich Fromm
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[Quote No.41914] Need Area: Friends > General
"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others." - George Soros
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[Quote No.41915] Need Area: Friends > General
"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society." - George Soros
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[Quote No.41916] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The best foreign policy is non-interventionist example and discussion:] The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation." - Jimmy Carter
US President
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[Quote No.41918] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom begins as we become conscious of it." - Vernon Howard
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[Quote No.41925] Need Area: Friends > General
"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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[Quote No.41926] Need Area: Friends > General
"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny." - Hannah Arendt
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[Quote No.41932] Need Area: Friends > General
"Perfect freedom [as in free market capitalism] is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship." - Patrick Henry
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[Quote No.41933] Need Area: Friends > General
"It does not take a majority to prevail [in creating true freedom in society]... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men [and women]." - Samuel Adams
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