Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work equitably? Both methods of imposing this tax are disastrous. The income declared would not be one-quarter of the usual amount. It would corrupt and demobilize the people as was done in England. The second method of obtaining the tax by assessors is obviously difficult. Would the freedom-loving Frenchmen submit to having their pockets searched? This was the cause of the French Revolution...
...would be idle to say that the change involves no curtailment of the freedom of individual choice; the very words of the Faculty's vote belie such an assertion. But it is the freedom which has resulted in abuse of privileges that is to be abridged; and in the diminution of injurious liberty there is nothing but gain...
...fathers came here to establish religious freedom; fought for political freedom; and sacrificed a million lives for race freedom; we should certainly stand for industrial and social freedom...
...competitor is given the utmost freedom in handling the subject, but the committee suggests the following procedure...
...civilized world has come to believe in the freedom of inquiry in all fields, as the best means of progress in knowledge, in manners and in righteous living. Now the field of inquiry from which within the last 60 years mankind has received the largest visible, tangible, concrete, demonstrable benefits is in the field of medical research applied in the medical and surgical art and in sanitary science. If freedom of inquiry be in general expedient and righteous, should not inquiry be free in this most productive of all fields? To secure and maintain this freedom against the assaults...