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"Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way."	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."	Benjamin Franklin
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."	Benjamin Franklin
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."	Benjamin Franklin
"History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom."	Milton Friedman
"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
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Bruce Barton	Buddha	Carlos Castaneda
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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