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" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "
Thomas Sowell
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" If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say. "
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" Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. "
Victor Hugo
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Civilization
Family
" If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. "
Rand Paul
Dream
Freedom
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" The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. "
Ramana Maharshi
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Thoughts
" Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life. "
Rigoberta Menchu
Hope
World
Life
" The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. "
Mike Fitzpatrick
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Patriotism
Our
" 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
Alcohol
Today
Power
" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "
Thomas Sowell
Rising
Tax
Goal
" You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. "
Tertullian
Because
Parcel
You
" We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. "
L. Neil Smith
Believe
Freedom
Government
" 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. "
Carole King
Friend
Think
Freedom
" Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. "
Thomas Sowell
Care
Political
People
" America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought. "
Benazir Bhutto
America
Democracy
Freedom
" Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. "
Thomas Sowell
America
More
Need
" To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. "
Eckhart Tolle
Love
Know
Yourself
" Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. "
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Independence
Gift
Hope
" The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. "
Emma Goldman
Purpose
Freedom
Sacrifice
" The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gold
Desire
Means
" I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter. "
Steven Biko
People
Fighter
Freedom
" 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. "
Maria Montessori
Drawing
Spirit
Goal
" Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. "
Milton Friedman
Friend
I Am
Freedom
" There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. "
John Adams
Free
Power
Men
" Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. "
Peace Pilgrim
Freedom
Care
Great
" The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. "
Henrik Ibsen
Pillars
Society
Truth
" Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. "
Albert Camus
Believe
Die
Dying
" The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. "
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History
Freedom
World
" The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom. "
Ellen Ullman
Thought
Big
Brother
" 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. "
Harriet Tubman
Free
Had
Me
" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "
Tom Robbins
People
Create
End
" Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom
Oppressed
Oppressor