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Freedom Quotes
"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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"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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"There's a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It's a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I'd take advantage of it while you can."
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
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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."
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"Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person."
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
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"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
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"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
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"School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects."
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"Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate."
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"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enlightenment except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use with and publicly in all matters."
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"We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks."
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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
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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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"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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"We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world."
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"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."
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"I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?"
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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about."
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"There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need."
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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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"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor."
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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."
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"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
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"Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality."
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"Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right."
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"Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
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