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the most expensive thing you can't buy and the cheapest excuse to start a war
means The state of being able to act, think, or speak as you choose, without coercion or undue restraint.
from From Old English 'frēodōm' — 'frēo' (free) plus the suffix '-dōm' (state or condition, the same '-dom' lurking in kingdom and wisdom). Older still, 'free' traces back to a Proto-Germanic root and a Proto-Indo-European source meaning something like 'beloved' or 'dear' — the same family that gave us 'friend.' The logic is tender: the free people of a household were the loved ones, kin rather than slaves. So freedom began not as a battlefield word but as a word for belonging.
- Statue weight
- Lady Liberty wears 31 tons of copper
- Brain wiring
- too many choices triggers paralysis, not joy
- Word origin
- Old English freo meant 'beloved,' not 'unbound'
- Press rankings
- only about 8 nations score fully free media
- Five seconds
- average time before a phone fills empty silence
declaration of independence — july 4, 1776 document declaring american colonies' independence from british rule
emancipation proclamation — january 1, 1863 executive order freeing enslaved people in confederate states