
“You are all born free and equal, and free you shall all die.”
“You are all born free and equal, and free you shall all die.”
“All men are by nature born equally free and independent.”
Remarks on Annual Elections (1775)
2014, Remarks to the People of Estonia (September 2014)
“We are either all equally free, or we are not free.”
2010s, Who's too Weak to Live with Freedom? (2013)
The 5,000 Year Leap (1981)
Those are undeniable truths.
Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21
pg 9.
Science in a Free Society (1978)
Context: A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_commons_indiagovt_1833.html#13
Attributed
“The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.”
Source: The Immoralist