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Famous Quotes
"Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly."
More quotes about Freedom
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"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."
Ronald Reagan on Freedom -
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
Nelson Mandela on Freedom -
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom -
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom -
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom
More quotes by George Will
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."
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"Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
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"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
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"I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom."
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"Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty."