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" Freedom is never given; it is won. "

A. Philip Randolph

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Charles Evans Hughes

" You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. "

" We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. "

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" Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. "

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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. "

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" Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. "

" I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. "

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" Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

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