It is not the fact of liberty ...

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
 Dorothy Thompson

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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.

Quotes from the same author

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
 Dorothy Thompson
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
 Dorothy Thompson
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
 Dorothy Thompson
The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.
 Dorothy Thompson
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
 Dorothy Thompson