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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 path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use."	Carlos Castaneda
"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
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Joseph Joubert	Josh Billings	Judge John Kane
Kahlil Gibran	Kaleel Jamison	Kathleen Norris
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Lucille Ball	Lucretius	Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Marie Curie	Marilyn Ferguson	Marquis de Lafayette
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Menander	Miguel de Cervantes	Milton Friedman
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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
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