To deny the freedom of the ...

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
 James Anthony Froude

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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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Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
 James Anthony Froude
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
 James Anthony Froude
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
 James Anthony Froude
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
 James Anthony Froude
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
 James Anthony Froude