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" 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
Lose
Freedom
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" In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. "
Noam Chomsky
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" Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. "
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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. "
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" Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be. "
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" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "
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" A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. "
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" 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. "
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" There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. "
Ron Paul
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" Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. "
Sigmund Freud
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" 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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" But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote. "
Lucy Stone
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" Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps. "
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" Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent. "
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" 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
Generation
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Voting
" How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. "
Karl Rahner
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" Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America. "
Tom Tancredo
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" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "
Thomas Sowell
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Cost
" The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. "
Wole Soyinka
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Greatest
Absence
" I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. "
Gordon Parks
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" The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom. "
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" Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life. "
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" Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. "
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" Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. "
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" The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. "
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" The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. "
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" We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. "
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" A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy. "
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Red
Heart
" A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. "
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