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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
Erasmus Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni (1523)
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.
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