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Freedom Quotes
"All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing."
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"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian."
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"Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal."
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"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."
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"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."
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"The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws."
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"Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals."
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"I cannot afford to lose you, too''You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you."
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"Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America."
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"In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait, it sounds like the ice cream man, in our house. Is this some kind of twisted nightmare? The flipping ice cream man, breaking in to chop us all up in our beds to the tune of 'Zippity Do Dah'?... My heart slows. I remember. There is no psycho ice cream man here. It is just our new musical soap dispenser."
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"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
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"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
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"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."
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"When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,and when we escape like squirrels turning in thecages of our personalityand get into the forests again,we shall shiver with cold and frightbut things will happen to usso that we don't know ourselves.Cool, unlying life will rush in,and passion will make our bodies taut with power,we shall stamp our feet with new powerand old things will fall down,we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up likeburnt paper."
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"The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong."
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"While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis."
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"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
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"We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future."
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"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
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"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
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"If I wanted to go to bed at ten o'clock I did. If I wanted to go to bed at six p.m., I did. I woke at sunrise because the new sun lit my eyes. The sun was my clock; my body my pace-keeper. I started walking when I wanted, kept going until precisely when I wanted to stop.When I was tired, feeling like stopping but wanting to persist, I'd listen to Blood On The Tracks."
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"If I was in Talon, I would be the one in charge, I'd be the one calling the shots. I wouldn't have to take pointless exams, listen to humans or worry that my every move was being watched. In Talon, dragons were the bosses, the presidents, the CEOs. If I was a part of the organization, no one would tell me what to do ever again.I would have to let some things go. I t might be painful, but in the end, it would be worth it. Sacrifice was necessary, but I would be free."
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"Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."
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"Almost as if speaking to herself, she continued, I would love to fly. I've always wondered what it be like to have that sense of freedom.A wistful note in her voice tugged at something deep inside him.He replied. I couldn't conceive of living without it. I can't imagine being forever grounded."
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"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
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"You heard Alanna. Someone's got to be on you at all times. His dark eyes glinted with a hot sort of mischief, his double entendre clear as day."
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"I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom."
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"What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead."
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"I have attended weddings, with chipped nail paints.I have worn same blue denim for days in a row.I have not followed etiquette sometimes, I was too happy to bother.I have picked up fights, ugly ones too.I have been notorious because I stood up for myself.I have flaws. I am flawed.But I have come to realize, It's okay to life a life others don't understand.My life should be my LIBERATION, Not anyone's REGULATION."
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"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."
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"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom."
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