The freedom to make a fortune ...

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
 John Mortimer

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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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No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.
 John Mortimer
Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.
 John Mortimer
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.
 John Mortimer
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
 John Mortimer
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.
 John Mortimer