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Freedom Quotes


"I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom."


"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."


"Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency."


"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."


"If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you."


"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."


"The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control."


"And the scary thing is, I'm on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings."


"Censorship is alive and well in America."


"I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about."


"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."


"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."


"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."


"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom."


"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."


"No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."


"We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths."


"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."


"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."


"Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness."


"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."


"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."


"The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist."


"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."


"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."


"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."


"We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere."


"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."


"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."


"Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform."


"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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