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Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.
– Rudy Giuliani
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
– William E. Gladstone
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
– Nadine Gordimer
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The recent successful elections in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown us that freedom is the best antidote to terror.
– Lindsey Graham
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People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.
– Andrew Greeley
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What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
– Dick Gephardt
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I thank God tonight for freedom - - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
– Jim Gibbons
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Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend, but in this case a country.
– Jim Gibbons
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The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
– Andrew Goodman
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Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.
– Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
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Freedom means to build a democratic system enshrined with the respect for fundamental rights of Man, of the human being, of the individuals.
– Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
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When all of us are required to think in the same way, we give away, all and each of us, our fundamental right to freedom of thought and expression. We become, once again, either slaves of an institutional majority or we return to dictatorship, where everything being decided by those on top is law.
– Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
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Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
– Chuck Hagel
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
– John Hall
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
– Edith Hamilton
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Maybe there'll be new bits of music that will start showing up. You know? Like what happened in the 60s. Everything just broke wide open. Music started getting connected between Jazz and Rock and Pop. Everything was wide open, there was much more freedom. Hopefully something like that will happen again.
– Jan Hammer
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
– Robert A. Heinlein
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Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
– Arthur Henderson
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
– Patrick Henry
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
– Frank Herbert
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There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.
– Adolf Hitler
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As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
– David Horowitz
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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
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We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.
– Kay Hutchison
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
– Tarja Halonen
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
– Victor Davis Hanson
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Our professed love of freedom is increasingly shown to be a sophistry that replaces wisdom and righteousness with self-gratification.
– Carl Henry
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Freedom works both ways. They're free to keep their mouths shut. I'm also free not to give the money.
– Donald A. Hicks
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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions.
– Kenneth Hildebrand
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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
– John Edward Christopher Hill
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To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
– Sidney Hook
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
– Henrik Ibsen
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
– Henrik Ibsen
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I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.
– Vanilla Ice
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
– Vanilla Ice
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
– Yahya Jammeh
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I am humbled as I rise today with my colleagues to honor the memories and the lives of the more than 6 million victims of Nazi hatred and aggression during the pogrom known to us as the Holocaust. I am also humbled to stand in this cathedral of freedom and honor the lives of the many heroes who fought so bravely against unimaginable odds to defeat a genocidal madman.
– William J. Jefferson
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I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.
– Lonnie Earl Johnson
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My vision of freedom is when financially someone's status doesn't rise or fall, but we are all the same just like God created us to be.
– Lonnie Earl Johnson
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The computer is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
– Alan Kay
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
– John F. Kennedy
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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
– John F. Kennedy
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The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.
– John F. Kennedy
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We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.
– John F. Kennedy
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
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Throughout our history, in peaceful exertion and in armed struggle, we were steadfast - we were right on the central issue of freedom, and we prevailed. And because we prevailed the world is a far better place than it was or would otherwise have been.
– John F. Kerry
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
– Walter Koenig
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
– Michael Korda
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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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But the vitriol also reflects the fact that many of the people at the Republican National Convention, for all their flag-waving, hate America. They want a controlled, monolithic society; they fear and loathe our nation's freedom, diversity and complexity.
– Paul Krugman
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
– Milan Kundera
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I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
– Islom Karimov
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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
– Grace Kelly
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I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.
– Will Kemp
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As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
– Justice Anthony Kennedy
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The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
– Justice Anthony Kennedy
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Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
– Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi
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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
– Lincoln Kirstein
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Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
– Horst Koehler
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America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
– Peter Kropotkin
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And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act under the disguise of fighting terrorism.
– Osama bin Laden
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Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.
– Mary Landrieu
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
– Vladimir Lenin
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
– Vladimir Lenin
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War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation until they realized that spells 'OIL.'
– Jay Leno
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And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.
– Doris Lessing
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
– Carl Levin
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In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform.
– Wyndham Lewis
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Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
– Joseph Lieberman
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This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
– Joseph Lieberman
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We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
– Joseph Lieberman
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Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
– A. J. Liebling
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As we watch the aftermath of the elections in Iraq, let's remember that while our own American culture remains young, our course of freedom is not.
– Trent Lott
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The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.
– Trent Lott
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While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.
– Trent Lott
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
– Flora Lewis
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Christianity stands for freedom, we don't want to impose our religion on everyone else. We just don't want secular humanist values or homosexual values to be forced upon us under the guise of anti-harassment laws, speech codes, hate crime laws, or sensitivity training.
– David Limbaugh
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From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
– Seth Low
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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
– Marshall Lumsden
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
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There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
– Archibald MacLeish
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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
– Archibald MacLeish
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Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
– Nelson Mandela
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
– Nelson Mandela
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
– Thomas Mann
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From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.
– Mel Martinez
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I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.
– Mel Martinez
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If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
– Rollo May
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But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
– John McCain
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Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
– Bryant H. McGill
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It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
– Karl A. Menninger
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