#free people

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. ↗

— James Monroe

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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

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I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security. ↗

— Michael Hayden

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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. ↗

— James Madison

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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. ↗

— Shirley Hufstedler

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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

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Our Constitution was put together for a free people. ↗

— Butch Otter

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