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" America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. "

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" How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. "

" Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. "

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" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "

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" I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. "

" In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. "

" Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. "

" My true friends, and my son, see me with kind eyes. I feel it. So that's the freedom my children have given me. To be naked in the world with an open heart. "

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" None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. "

" On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff. "

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" Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom. "

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" True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. "

" 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. "

" The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect. "

" The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. "

" I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve. "

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" Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. "

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" Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. "

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" Freedom is from within. "

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" We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world. "

" Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "

" Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. "

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