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Being and Nothingness · 1943
I Have a Dream · 1963
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.
McNabb v. United States · 1943
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged.
The Shawshank Redemption · 1994
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949
Democracy in America · 1840
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
A Room of One's Own · 1929
First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates · 1649
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.
Dead Poets Society · 1989