New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.
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Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Evil comes from the abuse of free will.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
