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Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment,

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Men
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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strength
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. – Felix Frankfurter

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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? – Frederic Bastiat

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Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. – Richard G. Scott

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

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