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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
– Aldous Huxley
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
– Aldous Huxley
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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
– Merle Haggard
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Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
– Henrik Ibsen
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The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
– William Ralph Inge
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
– John F. Kennedy
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
– John F. Kennedy
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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
– Alan Keyes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
– Coretta Scott King
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
– Charles Kingsley
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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
– Stanley Kubrick
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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
– Kris Kristofferson
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
– Fran Lebowitz
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
– Vladimir Lenin
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
– Abraham Lincoln
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
– Walter Lippmann
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
– Walter Lippmann
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
– Trent Lott
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Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
– Mario Vargas Llosa
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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
– Archibald MacLeish
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
– James Madison
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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
– Nelson Mandela
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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
– Nelson Mandela
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
– Nelson Mandela
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
– Karl Marx
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
– Rollo May
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
– Rollo May
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It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
– Bryant H. McGill
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True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
– Golda Meir
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
– H. L. Mencken
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
– Alice Duer Miller
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Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
– Margaret Mitchell
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There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
– Brian Molko
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
– Thomas Moore
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
– Jim Morrison
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
– Jim Morrison
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As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
– Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
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Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
– Robert S. McNamara
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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
– Alexander Meiklejohn
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
– Ferdinand Mount
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What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
– Ben Nelson
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
– Kwame Nkrumah
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A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
– Suze Orman
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
– George Orwell
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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
– Bill Owens
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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
– Thomas Paine
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
– Pope John Paul II
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
– Pope John Paul II
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To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
– Richard Perle
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
– Olof Palme
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
– Pericles
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The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
– Bob Riley
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My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.
– Tim Robbins
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
– Maximilien Robespierre
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Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.
– Robert Rodriguez
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
– Wilma Rudolph
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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
– Mary Caroline Richards
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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
– David Riesman
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Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.
– Bob Taft
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We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
– Bob Taft
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
– Tertullian
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
– Harry S. Truman
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Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.
– Kurt Tucholsky
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
– Kurt Vonnegut
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You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
– Lech Walesa
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
– Alice Walker
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Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
– Zack Wamp
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
– George Washington
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
– Edith Wharton
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
– Walt Whitman
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
– Oprah Winfrey
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
– Virginia Woolf
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
– William Wordsworth
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Freedom is from within.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
– Philip Wylie
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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
– Brigham Young
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
– Mikhail Bakunin
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
– Benjamin Cardozo
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
– James A. Garfield
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