Elbert Hubbard, in his essay on Booker T. Washington in Little Journeys For 1908, p. 21; Franklin D. Roosevelt later used this line on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation: "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved".
“It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.”
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
“Arizona and New Mexico: On Top”, p. 126.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Arizona and New Mexico: On Top," & "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain"
“Freedom, by its nature, cannot be imposed. It must be chosen.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2006, United Nations General Assembly speech (September 2006)
Context: Freedom, by its nature, cannot be imposed. It must be chosen. From Beirut to Baghdad, people are making the choice for freedom. And the nations gathered in this chamber must make a choice, as well: Will we support the moderates and reformers who are working for change across the Middle East—or will we yield the future to the terrorists and extremists? America has made its choice: We will stand with the moderates and reformers.
Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) Russian author
Letter from Paris to His Friend in Moscow (March 1st, 1849), Imperial Russia, A Sourcebook 1700-1917
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
This is actually from an essay "On Government No. I" that appeared in Franklin's paper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, on 1 April 1736. The author was John Webbe. He wrote about the privileges enjoyed under British rule,
:Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
Misattributed
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
Dwight D. Eisenhower book Mandate for Change
As quoted in The White House Years: Mandate for Change: 1953–1956: A Personal Account (1963), p. 331
1960s
Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India
Karma yoga
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 4 February 1984.
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Page 32.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Ordered Liberty and World Peace (1924)
