#free people

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

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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. ↗

— Harlan Stone

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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

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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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Our Constitution was put together for a free people. ↗

— Butch Otter

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The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. ↗

— James Madison

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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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