Quotations About / On: FREEDOM

  • 41.
    They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. letter to Michael Hahn, Mar. 13, 1864. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, p. 243, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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  • 42.
    Beasts in their major freedom
    Slumber in peace tonight.
    (Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. Beasts (l. 1-2). . . Poetry: Past and Present. Frank Brady and Martin Price, eds. (1974) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.)
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  • 43.
    Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
    (Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), U.S. novelist. Rhett Butler, in Gone with the Wind, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 9 (1936).)
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  • 44.
    When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
    (Jacques Prévert (1900-1977), French poet. "Intermède," Spectacle (1951).)
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  • 45.
    Freedom! A wanton slut on a profligate's breast!
    (Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Russian poet. You came out of a severe, well-proportioned church (1917), trans. by Dimitri Obolensky (1965).)
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  • 46.
    Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith—faith and freedom.
    (Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Trans. by Francis Steegmuller. The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert, letter, October 2, 1856, to Léon Laurent-Pichat (Farrar, Strauss and Young, 1953).)
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  • 47.
    Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
    (Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher. Madness and Civilization, ch. 7 (1965).)
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  • 48.
    No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
    (Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #81, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907).)
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  • 49.
    The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
    (Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Shine, Republic (l. 2). . . Faber Book of Political Verse, The. Tom Paulin, ed. (1986) Faber and Faber; Faber Book of Popular Verse, The. (1971) Faber and Faber (This book is the same as The Gambit Book of Popular Verse [GBP]);.)
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  • 50.
    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
    (John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. address, Sept. 25, 1961, to the U.N. General Assembly. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961.)
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