“Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”
— Germaine Greer
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We
“New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.”
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The abortion license has not brought freedom
“The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.”
— Robert Casey
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any
“Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.”
— Alfred Adler
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I believe there are more instances of
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
— James Madison
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People demand freedom of speech as a
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Freedom has cost too much blood and
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
— Thomas Sowell
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The secret to happiness is freedom… And
“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.”
— Thucydides
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold
“An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.”
— Alan Greenspan
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The first of all commodities to be
“The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.”
— Henry Charles Carey
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