Freedom is the sure ...

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
 Pericles

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
 Pericles
In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.
 Pericles
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
 Pericles
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
 Pericles
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
 Pericles