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Freedom Quotes
"I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties."
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"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all."
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"Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from."
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"Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right."
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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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"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
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"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
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"I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way."
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"A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid."
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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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"Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure."
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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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"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
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"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."
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"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
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"Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can."
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"The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong."
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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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"Man is not free unless government is limited."
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"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."
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"We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own."
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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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"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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"You must stand for free speech in the streets."
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"We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks."
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"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
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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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"Censorship is alive and well in America."
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"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
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