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" Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. "

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" Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. "

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" I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. "

Kailash Satyarthi

" Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. "

Milton Friedman

" Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected. "

" People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? "

" Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon. "

" I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that. "

" Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. "

" Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. "

" Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those. "

" I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family. "

" Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. "

" Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. "

Mikhail Bakunin

" Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living. "

" I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. "

" I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression. "

" Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. "

Black And White

" Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love. "

" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "

" An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction. "

" I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. "

" History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. "

" To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot. "

" A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. "

George H. W. Bush