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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

All go free when multitudes offend.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.

All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

All you have to do is say "yes." Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out of it. Just say "yes." You don't even know what it means to say "yes," but you say it anyway. You'll never know what it means to say "yes," but you do it anyway. Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.