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" If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. "

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" Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy. "

" So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. "

" Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. "

" Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. "

" 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. "

" You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. "

" It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. "

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

Black And White

" Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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

" Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom. "

" A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them. "

Oliver Ellsworth

" Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. "

" Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. "

Bertrand Russell

" Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. "

" The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. "

Mike Fitzpatrick

" We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man. "

" Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. "

" Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. "

" If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. "

Fannie Lou Hamer

" We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens. "

" Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage. "

" I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me. "

" Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect. "

" The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain. "

" Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. "

" In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. "

John F. Kennedy

" No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. "

Alexis de Tocqueville