Free Freedom

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~ FREE   id+ | INDEPENDENT
^u             LIBERTY
               UNLIMITED
               UNCONTROLLED |
~ FREEDOM      opp in modern times is
               id+ | BARBARISM BEGINS HER REIGN
                     BY BANISHING THE MUSES | attr to
                     Philip Dormer STANHOPE [#]
               id+ | LIBERTY IS ALL ENCOMPASSING | 
               id+ | FREEDOM TO EXIST IT MUST REACH NOT ONLY
                     THE POWERFUL AND THE RICH BUT 
                     THE POOR AND POWERLESS |      
               id+ | LIBERTY IS ALL ENCOMPASSING | 
               id+ | MARTYR IS A WITNESS WHO STEPS FORWARD IN DEFENSE OF
                     THE TRUTH thus of FREEDOM |
               id+ | " TRUTH FREES " | 
               id+ | MARTYR IS A WITNESS OF GOD |                   
     lit+   GOD IS MY WITNESS    a common motif for         
            TRUTH BEYOND PROOF                   sug> INSPIRATION                
     note   etymology also see> PEND 
     note   etymology overlaps with ideas in 
             FRIEND FAMILY NATION WIFE 
     Gothic  FRIJON     = TO LOVE    kw  LICENSE 
     ply> | FREE IMPLIES LIBERTY TO ACT or DESIRE or
            PREFER or to HAVE OUR OWN WILL or TO BE SOVEREIGN |
     ply> | note how LOVE FREEDOM and PEACE underscore how
            LOVE and LIBERTY CAN NOT BE IMPOSED |
~ FREEDOM   id+ | SPONTANEITY |  as in
            note LIBERTY  INDEPENDENCE
  id+ | FREEDOM CALLS FOR THE TRUTH and a TRUE WAY |         
  hx> maxim> "THE UNITY OF FREEDOM
              NEVER RELIED ON UNIFORMITY OF OPINION"
  John F Kennedy [#]
  ply> | THE DOMICILE OF FREEDOM IS IN OUR SOUL |  
  lit+ " ... FREEDOM CONSISTS NOT IN DOING WHAT WE LIKE
       BUT IN HAVING THE RIGHT TO DO WHAT WE OUGHT "
  note how this exonerates to some extent WRONGFUL
  or "NOT RIGHT" ACTS COMMITTED BY THOSE ACTING UNDER A TYRANNY
  note the element "RIGHT" in contrast to LICENSE LICENTIOUS
  as expressed in October 1995 by Pope JOHN PAUL II [#]   FAMILY
  lit+ " MIGHT IS RIGHT " IS NOT RIGHT                       
  lit+ " MIGHT IS RIGHT IS THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE "           
  note how CULTURE "FREE" VALUES underscore the measures
       used by MODERN ECONOMISTS TO MEASURE "PROGRESS" when in fact
  WITHOUT A CULTURE OF FREEDOM THERE IS NO PROGRESS which is perhaps
  why the MODERN AFFLUENT MAN FEELS "TRAPPED"
  lit+ "I HAVE ALWAYS VALUED FREEDOM MORE HIGHLY THAN MONEY
        AND PREFERRED IT "  attr to Gnaeus NAEVIUS [#] in [95]
  A PLEBEIAN AND SOLDIER DURING THE FIRST PUNIC WAR 264-241 BC
  NAEVIUS SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE CONSUL METELLI AND WAS EXILED
  THE SATIRES BY NAEVIUS INSPIRED VERGIL
  ply> | FREEDOM IS WITHIN US AND URGES US TO ENDURE or to even
        accept TORTURE or MARTYRDOM |
  ply> | FREEDOM AND FLIGHT MAKE FOR "FREE AS A BIRD" |   
  lit+ " THEY ARE FREE FROM FEAR
         THEY ARE FREE "
         from BUDDHA [75]
  maxim> " IF A NATION EXPECTS TO BE IGNORANT AND FREE ...
           IT EXPECTS WHAT NEVER WAS AND WHAT NEVER WILL BE."
  from T JEFFERSON [#] from a letter to C Yancey Jan 6th 1816
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& FREEDOM
  lit+ maxim> " ... FREEDOM IS THE IGNORANCE OF NECESSITY "
              from E SPINOZA [#]
  lit+ maxim> " HE ALONE IS WORTHY OF LIFE AND FREEDOM
                WHO EACH DAY DOES BATTLE FOR THEM ANEW "
  from "Faust" by GOETHE [#]
  lit+ maxim> " FREEDOM IS INDIVISIBLE
                FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO ENJOY IT
                IT MUST BE EXTENDED TO ALL OTHERS "
  modified from "One World" by Wendell L WILLKIE [#]
  hx> THE EUROPEAN or GREEK IDEAL OF FREEDOM AROSE
      AFTER THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS and         see
  PLATEA or PLATAEA following which THE GREEKS RAISED
  AN ALTAR TO ZEUS as  " THE GIVER OF FREEDOM "
  later THE ROMAN VICTORY AT ACTIUM WAS CONSIDERED AKIN TO
        THE VICTORIES OF MARATHON SALAMIS AND PLATEA WHICH
  LIBERATED GREECE FROM THE THREAT POSED BY PERSIA
  WHEN AUGUSTUS DEFEATED CLEOPATRA AND MARK ANTONY
  THE VICTORY ELIMINATED THE THREAT OF EASTERN or
  ORIENTAL DESPOTISM OVER ROME
  cont> sug> FREEDOM