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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Kindness, Human, Tough

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

Men, Society, Whole

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan

Sky, Birds, Chained

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Mae West

Give, Hand, Run

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
Barack Obama

Black, Leader, Choice

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom, Government, Democracy

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Sense, Afraid

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

Men, Freedom, Cannot

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Power, Long, Away

If we are not free, no one will respect us.
Abdul Kalam

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Government, May, Down

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. Fields

Hate, Prejudices, Equally

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin

Reality, Try, Ways

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot

Last, Until, King

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Live, Together

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams

Trust, Men, Power

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson Mandela

Men, Cannot, Prisoner

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Once, Thrown, Condemned

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Allen Boyd

Women, Great, Men

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman

History, Far, System

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve Jobs

Power, Today, Revolution

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah Winfrey

Power, Truth, Fear

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo Buscaglia

Freedom, Wish, Ourselves

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Fear, Greatest

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Niccolo Machiavelli

God, Away, Willing

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
Oliver Tambo

Freedom, Happy, Fight

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
Barack Obama

Market, Critics, Contrary

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