Dorothy Thompson - Fact Quotes

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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Dorothy Thompson

The most dangerous illusion from which free men suffer is the widely held idea that freedom maintains itself by the mere fact of its being.

Dorothy Thompson

People and societies who cannot see any purpose in their existence beyond the material and the tangible must live chartlessly, and must live in spiritual misery, because they cannot overcome the greatest fact and mystery of human life, next to birth, which is death.

Dorothy Thompson