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" Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. "

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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" In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. "

" Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. "

" I discovered freedom for the first time in England. "

Emperor Hirohito

" Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. "

" It is open for anyone to have freedom of speech, and I guess we can all play a role in trying to make a difference in the world. Particularly if your leader is not helping in that area. "

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" Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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

" It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. "

" The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works. "

" Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline. "

" I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it. "

" I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. "

Mikhail Bakunin

" A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. "

" 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. "

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

W. Somerset Maugham

" When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. "

Pope John Paul II

" The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom. "

" 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. "

" No man is good enough to be another's master. "

" Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom. "

" Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom. "

Robert H. Schuller

" The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. "

" People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people. "

" Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us. "

" Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen. "

" If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" My story is a freedom song from within my soul. It is a guide to discovery, a vision of how even the worst pain and heartaches can be channeled into human monuments, impenetrable and everlasting. "

Coretta Scott King