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Freedom Quotes
"And the scary thing is, I'm on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings."
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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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"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
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"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
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"Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
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"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised."
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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"I am running and singing and when it's raining I'm the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it's cleaning me. I'm the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I'm the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I've made of myself."
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"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."
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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
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"You must stand for free speech in the streets."
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"Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows."
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"I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations."
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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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"The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue."
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"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."
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"INTO MY OWNOne of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew- Only more sure of all I thought was true."
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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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"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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"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."
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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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"No man was born in chains; it is their fellow man who has put them in chains, and at any given time, every single man and woman has the absolute right to break free from those chains of any nature and of any form! It is not God who has put you in any sort of bondage! It is your fellow man who puts you in bondage in the name of God!"
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"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
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"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."
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"There are days we all live with defensive thoughts in our mind. Without losing these thoughts we can't totally be ourselves, and enjoy life's freedom of the heart."
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"The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched."
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"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."
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"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
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"I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about."
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"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
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"Disconnect from society's pressure to conform. Do things your own way."
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"Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being."
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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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