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" Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. "

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" Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. "

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" I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me. "

" My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit. "

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" The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. "

" The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities. "

" Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress. "

" All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. "

" Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. "

" Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him. "

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Thought

Think

" If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. "

" It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom. "

" You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. "

" 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. "

" We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. "

" The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to. "

" 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. "

" Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. "

" Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man

Freedom

Natural

" After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. "

" We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation. "

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

" There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. "

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

" Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom

Oppressed

Forever

" Donald Trump will make sure that any agreement with Iran meets the original goals of the U.N and our allies: a non-nuclear Iran. "

" Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! "

" Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. "

" In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future. "

" Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against. "

" Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. "