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22 Phil. L.J. 1 (1947)

handle is hein.journals/philplj22 and id is 1 raw text is: ii,*1 Il PHILIPPINE JOURNAL LAW VOL. XXII JANUARY, 1947 NO. I )ersonal libcrty is a poor and shrunken thing, inca- pable of satisfying our aspirations or our wants, if it does not exact as its minimal requirement that there shall be the maintenance of opportunity for the growth of per- sonality ..... W1e are free only if we know, and so in proportion to our knowledge. There is no freedom without choice, and there is no choice without know- ledge,-or none that is not illusory. Implicit, therefore, in the very notion of liberty is the liberty of the mind to ab- sorb and beget. The mimt is in -chains when it is with- out the opportunity to choo>-e.-JUSTICE CARDOZO, United States Supreme Court.