#free

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alien #america #bulwark #conscious #decent

Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery? ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#slavery #freedom

They were happy, and free, and the endless sky awaited them. It was enough. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#happiness #freedom

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#freedom #philosophy #freedom

Believe me,' [...] 'I would know about it. That's the difference between me and your girlfriend. I am the jealous type. I am the Spanish Inquisition when it comes to being fucked around on. No quarter will be given. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#girlfriend #jealousy #freedom

We've focused so long on ideals of freedom that it is this very belief that oppresses us. We all want to be free, yet we find ways to forfeit liberty to our own impulses, to our own consumption. ↗

— As I Lay Dying

#freedom

The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#freedom #important #important issue #issue #most

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#clear #communications #critical #distraction #exaggeration

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. ↗

— John A. Logan

#coming #cost #forgotten #free #generations

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries. ↗

— Jon Lord

#absolutely nothing #because #boundaries #form #free