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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare,
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Don't put no restrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.
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Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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Every generation must wage a new war for freedom against new forces that seek through new devices to enslave mankind.
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Every human soul has the germ of some flowers within; and they would open if they could only find sunshine and free air to expand in."
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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| Louis D. Brandeis |
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised him in a secular mode. He enrolled at Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the college"�s history.
Brandeis settled in Boston where he became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes. Starting in 1890, he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a Harvard Law Review article of that title, and was thereby credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law". Years later, a book he published, entitled Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It, suggested ways of curbing the power of large banks and money trusts, which partly explains why he later fought against powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. He also became active in the Zionist movement, seeing it as a solution to the "Jewish problem" of antisemitism in Europe and Russia, while at the same time being a way to "revive the Jewish spirit."
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For political and intellectual freedom, and for all the blessings which political and intellectual freedom have brought in their train, she (England) is chiefly indebted to the great rebellion of the laity against the priesthood.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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| Hannah Arendt |
Johanna "Hannah" Arendt (14 October 1906 - 4 December 1975) was a German-American political theorist. Though often described as a philosopher, she rejected that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular" and instead described herself as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." Her works deal with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. The Hannah Arendt Prize is named in her honour.
Contents
1 Life and career
2 Death
3 Works
3.1 The Origins of Totalitarianism
3.2 The Human Condition
3.3 Men in Dark Times
3.4 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3.5 On Revolution
3.6 On Violence
3.7 The Life of the Mind
3.8 Analysis of On Revolution
3.9 The Social Question
4 Legacy
5 Commemoration
6 Film
7 Selected works
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links
Life and career[edit source | edit]
Arendt was born into a secular family of German Jews in Linden (present-day Hanover)), the daughter of Martha (née Cohn) and Paul Arendt. She grew up in Königsberg (renamed Kaliningrad and annexed to the Soviet Union in 1946) and Berlin. At the University of Marburg, she studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger.
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Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
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Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed-- else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
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Freedom is a tenable objective only for responsible individuals.
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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
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