Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. — Quoted

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“Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.”

Robert McNamara · Freedom

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Robert McNamara

We burned to death 100, 000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

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Alexis de Tocqueville

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

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Andrew Wiles

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

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Matt Drudge

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

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