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Freedom Quotes
"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."
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"We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not."
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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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"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
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"The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm."
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"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
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"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
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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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"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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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
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"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
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"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all."
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"Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness."
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"The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual."
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"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."
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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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"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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"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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"My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States."
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"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."
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"The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control."
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"There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before."
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"What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said."
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"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
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"Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise."
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"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults."
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"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
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"Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
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"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free."
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"Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist."
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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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