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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
(Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), U.S. president. "Message, The Fifth Freedom," LBJ Library, "Speech Collection," (February 5, 1968).
On international education.)
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
(John Milton (1608-1674), British poet. repr. In Complete Prose Works of Milton, ed. Ernest Sirluck (1959). The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649).)
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
(Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Hernani, preface (1830).)
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
(Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929), U.S. sociologist. Human Nature and the Social Order, ch. 12 (1902).)
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
(Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader. The State and Revolution, ch. 5, sct. 2 (1917).)
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
(Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German revolutionary. The Russian Revolution, ch. 6 (1922, trans. 1961).
Prison notes, 1918.)
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
(Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). About Tolerance (1977).)
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
(Malcolm X (1925-1965), U.S. African-American leader. speech, Jan. 7, 1965, New York City. "Prospects for Freedom in 1965," ch. 12, Malcolm X Speaks (1965).
Birth name Malcolm Little.)
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
(Willa Cather (1876-1947), U.S. author. "Four Letters: Escapism," On Writing (1949).
Written 1936.)
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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
(Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), British novelist, poet. Letter, June 1, 1919, to her husband, diplomat and author Harold Nicolson. Quoted in Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage (1973).)
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