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" I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

" When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to. "

" He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. "

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" Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. "

" The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. "

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" The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. "

" China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. "

" Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him. "

Mstislav Rostropovich

" Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. "

Alexander Meiklejohn

" The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom. "

" Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence. "

Coretta Scott King

" Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win. "

" Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "

" True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. "

" My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea. "

" We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people. "

" Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are you at the mercy of bus drivers, roadworks, decisions made by others and over which you have no control. Believe me, once you've tasted this freedom, you're hooked. "

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" Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. "

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" A great man is always willing to be little. "

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" 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. "

" Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. "

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" I need this wild life, this freedom. "

" Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by 'Shut Up India' in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship. "

" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "

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