We are not free, it was not ...

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
 E. W. Howe

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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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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.
 E. W. Howe
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
 E. W. Howe
There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.
 E. W. Howe
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
 E. W. Howe
A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
 E. W. Howe