
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
Il faut avancer... parce que le christianisme et la liberté sont incompatibles
[in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 72, 27082 2892-7]
On religion
Il faut avancer… parce que le christianisme et la liberté sont incompatibles
Sur la religion
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1960) The voice of the uninvolved: speeches and statements on atomic warfare and test explosions. p. 167
Closing remarks in court https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGIbb8rY7hQ&feature=youtu.be (1 June 2011)
2010s
Cited by António Caeiro in Pela China Dentro (translated), Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004. ISBN 972-20-2696-8
From "The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics" (1983) in The Hauerwas Reader https://www.researchgate.net/publication/37719715_The_Hauerwas_reader (2001) eds. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright
2014, Queensland University Address (November 2014)
Context: America supports free and fair elections, because citizens must be free to choose their own leaders -- as in Thailand where we are urging a quick return to inclusive, civilian rule. We support freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, a free and open Internet, strong civil societies, because the voices of the people must be heard and leaders must be held accountable -- even though it’s uncomfortable sometimes. [... ] We support strong institutions and independent judiciaries and open government, because the rule of force must give way to the rule of law. And in that same fashion, the United States will continue to stand up for the inherent dignity of every human being. Now, dignity begins with the most basic of needs -- a life free of hunger and disease and want.
Unknown source, often attributed to The Woman Rebel.
Misattributed
“Together, we must advance unafraid into the modern age!”
The Bartimaeus Trilogy Official Website, History
Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1 : In Praise of Diversity
Context: Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features. They share these features also with other enterprises such as art, literature and music. The most salient features of all these enterprises are discipline and diversity. Discipline to submerge the individual fantasy in a greater whole. Diversity to give scope to the infinite variety of human souls and temperaments. Without discipline there can be no greatness. Without diversity there can be no freedom. Greatness for the enterprise, freedom for the individual — these are the two themes, contrasting but not incompatible, that make up the history of science and the history of religion.
2000s, 2003, Remarks on U.S.-British relations and foreign policy (November 2003)