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Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-- John Adams
1735-1826, Second President
of the USA
When people
talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I
cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such
thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be
hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no
more.
-- John Adams
1735-1826, Second President
of the USA
Yesterday the
greatest question was decided which ever was debated in
America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be,
decided among men. A resolution was passed without one
dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and independent States.''
-- John Adams
1735-1826, Second President
of the USA
Liberty,
according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in
an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and
power.
-- John Adams
1735-1826, Second President
of the USA
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Freedom is the
emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
-- Mortimer J. Adler
1902-, American Educator,
Philosopher
When we were
told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did
very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and
economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of
freedom, while we should have been the first to know that
this kind of ''happiness'' has been an unmixed blessing only
in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with
the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and
thought, of assembly and association, even under the best
conditions.
-- Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born
American Political Philosopher
Democracy
arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any
respect, they are equal absolutely.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Within
yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man
makes his own prison.
-- Sir Edwin Arnold
1832-1904, British Poet,
Journalist
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