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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal read more
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in read more
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?