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  • Herbert Hoover Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Philo of Alexandria Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Auberon Herbert How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • William Wordsworth How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Javier Perez de Cuellar I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.
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  • W. C. Fields I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Charles Baudelaire I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Armstrong Williams I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Alice Walker I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Anne Tyler I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Milan Kundera I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.
    Farewell Waltz (1976)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Harriet Tubman I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • William Hazlitt I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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