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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. "
Bertrand Russell
Time
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Freedom
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" True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. "
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" Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. "
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" The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. "
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" America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "
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" But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom. "
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" Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. "
Albert Camus
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" Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. "
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" The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves. "
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" If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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" If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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" Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect. "
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" Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. "
Bertrand Russell
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Talk
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" Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. "
Wendell Phillips
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Nothing
Knows
" God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. "
John Calvin
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Ignorance
Freedom
" We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions. "
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" Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend. "
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" I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me. "
John Irving
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" When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it. "
Steve Wozniak
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" I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. "
Edward Snowden
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" I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence! "
Deborah Sampson
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" Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together. "
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" There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit. "
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" I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. "
John Thune
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" In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others. "
Pope Benedict XVI
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" The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. "
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" Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. "
Os Guinness
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" Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. "
Frederick Douglass
Up
Ground
Without
" 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. "
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" If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. "
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