#free people

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. ↗

— James Madison

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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. ↗

— James Monroe

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A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure. ↗

— Nick Rahall

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I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. ↗

— James Madison

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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

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I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security. ↗

— Michael Hayden

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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. ↗

— Shirley Hufstedler

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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. ↗

— Noah Webster

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