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" Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom. "

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" To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. "

" We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification. "

" I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that? "

Ralph Abernathy

" Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn't spend it - especially if she doesn't spend it. "

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Abraham Lincoln

" I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons. "

" A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. "

" I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves. "

" Human beings crave freedom at their core. "

" Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. "

" Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. "

Wendell Phillips

" I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. "

" It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. "

" We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Whether it's freedom to express, freedom to live, freedom to earn, freedom to thrive, freedom to learn, whatever it is, I want to make sure that I'm a part of these spaces and opening doors. "

" If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. "

" Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. "

Alan Dershowitz

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" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

" Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. "

" Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. "

John F. Kennedy

" When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to. "

" Podcasting is great. Total freedom. "

" I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. "

Simone de Beauvoir

" Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. "

Suzanne Collins

" The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks. "

" I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. "

" The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. "

Marian Wright Edelman

" You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect. "

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