#free men

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. ↗

— Arrian

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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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Free men have arms; slaves do not. ↗

— William Blackstone

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

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Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master. ↗

— John Norman

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As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. ↗

— Rick Perry

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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

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. ↗

— George Washington

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