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Freedom Quotes
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
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"I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom."
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"They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that."
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
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"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual."
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"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."
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"I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person."
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"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
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"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."
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"I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that."
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"Eagles fly alone, not because they are proud, but because they are not afraid of soaring above the clouds."
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"Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free."
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"That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."
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"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
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"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."
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"Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will."
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
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"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled."
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"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
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"Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right."
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"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
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"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."
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"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
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"For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure."
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"I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move."
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"Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking of much more importance than a glass, and I'm happy for that. Look to your own inner struggles and break this glass.Our parents taught us to be careful with glasses and with our bodies. They taught us that the passions of childhood are impossible; we should not remove men from the priesthood, that people do not perform miracles and that no one goes on a journey without knowing where he wants to go.Break this cup, please, I thought to myself, and release of all these damn misconceptions, the habit you have of only doing that which everyone agrees with."
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"I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties."
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"Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from."
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