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Freedom, or the idea of being free, is a broad concept that has been given numerous interpretations by philosophies and schools of thought. The protection of interpersonal freedom can be the object of a social and political investigation, while the metaphysical foundation of inner freedom is a philosophical and psychological question. The ama-gi, a Sumerian cuneiform word, is the earliest known written symbol representing the idea of freedom. The English word "freedom" comes from an Indo... full article at wikipedia

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.	Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.	Sigmund Freud	Civilization and Its Discontents
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.	Milton Friedman	Milton Friedman
It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.		Unknown
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.	Archibald MacLeish
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.	H. L. Mencken
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.	Martin Luther King, Jr.
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.	John F. Kennedy
So far as a person thinks; they are free.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.	Abraham Lincoln
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