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" Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

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" 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. "

" If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. "

" History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice. "

" Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. "

" You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. "

Clarence Darrow

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human. "

Murray Rothbard

" The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. "

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

" I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us. "

" The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom. "

" The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. "

Friedrich Engels

" I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. "

" Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. "

Michel Foucault

" As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

" In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. "

" There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

George Washington

" The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression. "

" You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" My true friends, and my son, see me with kind eyes. I feel it. So that's the freedom my children have given me. To be naked in the world with an open heart. "

Sophie B. Hawkins

" Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. "

" Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance. "

" Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night. "

Ellen DeGeneres

" Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life. "

Shel Silverstein

" The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back. "

Mohamed ElBaradei

" The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world. "