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Freedom Quotes
"Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy."
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"Confidence, darling.' He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. 'You could learn something from me, you know."
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"I know what it is: it's a green mamba snake away up in the tree. You don't have to be afraid of them anymore because you are one. They lie so still on the tree branch; they are the same everything as the tree. You could be right next to one and not even know. It's so quiet there. That's just exactly what I want to go and be, when I have to disappear. Your eyes will be little and round but you are so far up there you can look down and see the whole world, Mama and everybody. The tribes of Ham, Shem, and Japheth all together. Finally you are the highest one of all."
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"Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency."
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"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."
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"TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty."
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"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
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"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."
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"I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air."
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"FUCK "UNITY"!! What a pathetic way of thinking. How arrogant of Progressives to think that my hopes and dreams mirror their hopes and dreams. What an absolute bore.... what an total lack of originality or individuality... I believe in individual liberty. I am an extremist on the topic of individual liberty, precisely because I value original thinking and original accomplishments. Fuck unity of purpose. Fuck collectivism. My life is not your life. I have my own path. Get out of my way."
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"To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something."
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"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."
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"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
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"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
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"You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem."
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"Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact."
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"I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk."
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"For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have."
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"Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully."
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"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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"Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity."
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"I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it."
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"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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"Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline."
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"The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of."
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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."
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"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."
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"To die hating them, that was freedom."
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"Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come."
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"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."
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"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
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"I earned the right not to compete for a man.He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him..."
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"They say live it how you want toOr else someone else will.This is my life, and I willLive it."
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"He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books- a man needed few things to live. And it was good not to get used to many things when life was unsettled. Again and again one had to abandon them or they were taken away. One should be ready to leave every day. That was the reason he had lived alone- when one was on the move one should not have anything that could bind one. Nothing that could stir the heart. The adventure- but nothing more."
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