Pythagoras, Reverend Martin Niemoeller, William Ellery Channing

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"No one is free who is not master of himself."

-- Pythagoras

(c. 570-c. 495 BC) Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, mystic and scientist

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Pythagoras.Quote.4302

 

 

"Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom,

and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living."

-- Reverend Martin Niemoeller

(1892-1984) German Lutheran pastor, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the allied forces in 1945.

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Martin.Niemoeller.Quote.8E50

 

 

"The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine,

a jealousy of our own particular rights,

but a respect for the rights of others,

and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low,

should be wronged and trampled under foot."

-- William Ellery Channing

(1780-1842)

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Channing.Quote.C980