“It is man’s pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.”
1980s
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“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it”
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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html
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“If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.”
“Addicted to that Rush,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=488 WorldNetDaily.com, March 6, 2009.
2000s, 2009

“It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.”
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.24

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
As quoted in "The right to be downright offensive" by Jonathan Duffy in BBC News Magazine (21 December 2004) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4114497.stm

The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.
New York Times (November 28, 1954).
Judicial opinions

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)