# Recommend Readings on Freedom

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-readings-on-freedom/617497>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 1, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-readings-on-freedom/617497 "2012-04-01T18:10:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-readings-on-freedom/617497/1 "2012-04-01T18:10:17Z")

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I’ve been invited to a seder for which we’ve been asked to bring something to read on the topic of freedom.

I haven’t gotten any farther than Thomas Paine . . .

any suggestions? Not more than a page, probably. A seder is long enough as it is.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-readings-on-freedom/617497/2 "2012-04-01T20:25:38Z")

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How about [The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom](http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html) by Thomas Jefferson?

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**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-readings-on-freedom/617497/3 "2012-04-01T20:34:46Z")

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“Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love