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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."	Erich Fromm
"The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom."	Erich Fromm
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"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
"Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained."	James Abram Garfield
"I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you."	Paula Giddings
"The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace."	Bhagavad Gita
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."	Bhagavad Gita
"None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government."	Barry Morris Goldwater
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."	Barry Morris Goldwater
"Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House; these altogether respect personal liberty..."	Senator William Grayson
"Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery."	Jameson Green
"It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you."	M. Grundler
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."	Learned Hand
"What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works--my God, what would become of us?"	George Frederick Handel
"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If someone told me it wasn't 'fashionable' to talk about freedom, I think I'd just have to look him square in the eye and say, 'Okay, YOU TELL ME what's `fashionable'.' But he won't. And you know why? Because you can't ask someone what's fashionable in a smart-alecky way like that. You have to be friendly and say, 'By the way, what's fashionable?'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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