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" Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. "

Robert McNamara

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" America, to me, is freedom. "

" Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard. "

" We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally. "

Martin O'Malley

" The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. "

" One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness. "

Ezra Taft Benson

" I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. "

Melissa Etheridge

" Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom. "

" There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? "

Robert McNamara

" A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them. "

Oliver Ellsworth

" Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. "

" I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else. "

" Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. "

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

Abraham Lincoln

" Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline. "

" We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. "

Herbert Spencer

" The more liberty you give away the more you will have. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. "

William J. Brennan, Jr.

" Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go. "

" I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines. "

" Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it. "

Rebecca MacKinnon

" We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character. "

" I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails. "

" Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. "

" Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. "

George Washington

" I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish. "

Toussaint Louverture

" Freedom lies in being bold. "

" That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. "