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They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
– Bobby Sands
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They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
– Audie Murphy
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They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
– John Boehner
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They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.
– Daryl Gates
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They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
– John Boehner
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They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
– Louis Farrakhan
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
– Neil Gaiman
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There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
– Dave Matthews
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There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
– James Larkin
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
– Harriet Ann Jacobs
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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
– Ron Paul
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
– Thomas B. Macaulay
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There is no such thing as part freedom.
– Nelson Mandela
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There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
– Jesse Ventura
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There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
– Wynton Marsalis
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There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.
– Thomas Frank
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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
– Edward Gibbon
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The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
– Jose Marti
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
– Aldous Huxley
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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
– Mitt Romney
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The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
– Ho Chi Minh
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The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
– Benicio Del Toro
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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
– Phyllis Schlafly
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The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.
– John Boehner
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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
– Condoleezza Rice
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The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
– Angelina Jolie
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
– Natan Sharansky
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The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
– Molly Ivins
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The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
– Tony Blair
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
– Ernest Holmes
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
– Imelda Marcos
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
– Desmond Tutu
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The precondition to freedom is security.
– Rand Beers
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
– Bell Hooks
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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
– Condoleezza Rice
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The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
– John F. Kennedy
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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
– Thomas Huxley
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
– Robert Frost
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
– Titus Livius
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The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
– Howard Nemerov
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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
– Peter Singer
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The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
– Jonathan Sacks
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The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
– Bruce Jackson
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The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
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The main thing I believe in is freedom.
– Charles Evers
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
– Madeleine Albright
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
– Samuel Adams
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The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.
– Rick Perry
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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
– Constance Baker Motley
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
– Randall Terry
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The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
– John Boehner
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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
– Jonathan Sacks
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
– Oriana Fallaci
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
– Dan Castellaneta
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
– Lech Walesa
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
– Paul Twitchell
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
– Wole Soyinka
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
– Denis Diderot
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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.
– Mike Fitzpatrick
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.
– Julie Burchill
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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
– Felix Adler
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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
– Billy Graham
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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
– Henry Charles Carey
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The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
– Arlen Specter
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The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
– Paul Stanley
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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
– Oliver Tambo
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
– John Locke
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
– Ramana Maharshi
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
– Neil Gaiman
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
– Harry Browne
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
– Lady Bird Johnson
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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
– Ibrahim Babangida
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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
– William Hague
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
– Jimmy Carter
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The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
– Mark Udall
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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
– James McGreevey
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
– Anna Deavere Smith
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The American dream is about freedom.
– Nancy Pelosi
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The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
– Robert Casey
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That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.
– Conrad Hall
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That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
– Paul Ryan
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That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
– Lester Maddox
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
– Ben Harper
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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
– Anish Kapoor
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That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
– Sheryl Crow
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
– Coretta Scott King
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Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
– Henri Bergson
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So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker something that's truly about freedom.
– Scott Walker
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
– Neil Gaiman
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
– Floyd Abrams
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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