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" I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans. "

Gary Johnson

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" Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion. "

" If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you. "

" 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. "

" You can only be free if I am free. "

Clarence Darrow

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" Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. "

" I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended. "

" History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. "

" One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like. "

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" I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down. "

" The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. "

" In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom. "

" I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. "

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Say

" There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. "

" I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression. "

" We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification. "

" Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. "

" 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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" The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything. "

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

" When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. "

" In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" 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. "

" The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck. "

" One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground. "

" 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. "

" Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. "

" People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change. "

" Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important. "