As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we can

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours. – Jon Landau

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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. – Herbert Spencer

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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once theyve learned the rules. – Anna Quindlen

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952

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