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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Election, English, Parliament

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
Jessamyn West

Death, Past, Writing

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
Paul Ryan

Freedom, Equality, Live

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee

Age, Wisdom, Children

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann

Men, Society, Justice

Free love never works.
Jennifer Aniston

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Mikhail Bakunin

Happy, Forget, Same

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs

Soul, While, Class

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Money, Art

A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.
Suze Orman

Money, Enough, Matter

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Pythagoras

Himself, Empire, Obtained

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
Alice Miller

Strong, Simple, Someone

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Aeschylus

God, Best, Evil

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Women, Men, Fear

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz Kafka

Support, Spirit, Becomes

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?
Michael J. Fox

Life, Time, Long

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.
Paul Ryan

Creativity, Moral, Lives

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Zhuangzi

Mind, May, Happen

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
Jenny McCarthy

Work, Money, Fun

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
Katherine Jenkins

Life, Time, Live

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.
Mark Zuckerberg

Money, Through, Service

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger

Mother, Woman, Control

No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Woodrow Wilson

Government, Generation, Event

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Together, Speech, Pictures

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman

Fire, Means, Theatre

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.
Pharrell Williams

Love, Judgement, Clear

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews

Order, Discipline, Fly

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.
Jim Capaldi

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