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(1886-1978 ) Spanish writer, diplomat, and historian, noted for his service at the League of Nations

A test for freedom

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 8, 2021February 8, 2021Categories individualism, libertyTags Salvador De Madariaga

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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