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Freedom Quotes
"Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth."
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"If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable."
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"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
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"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
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"I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful."
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"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves."
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"I don't know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it's more a force to preserve freedom."
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"I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be."
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"From birds she learned how to sing, from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence."
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"I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way."
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"Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all."
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
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"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'"
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"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
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"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
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"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."
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"You cannot be a positive influence to the 'sinners at the table' if you refuse to dine with them."
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"For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine."
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"If you look within your heart, I am here, and you are free."
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"And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied."
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"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
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"Transcendence is more about the personal act of not engaging the enemy, finding a way out of the cage that is being designed for you at a particular moment by others, circumstance, or your own bad habits and ignorance."
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"The loss of liberty may imprison a person, but it does not confine their mind."
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"Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free."
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"You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you."
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"Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument."
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"True freedom is the absence of attachment."
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"After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from the company and retired to the library. Mr. Hargrave followed me thither, under pretence of coming for a book; and first, turning to the shelves, he selected a volume, and then quietly, but by no means timidly, approaching me, he stood beside me, resting his hand on the back of my chair, and said softly, 'And so you consider yourself free at last?'Yes, ' said I, without moving, or raising my eyes from my book, 'free to do anything but offend God and my conscience."
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"Freedom is a precious gift, and its preservation demands eternal vigilance."
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
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