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" In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. "

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" To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. "

" After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors. "

" Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. "

" 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

" Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. "

Pope John Paul II

" 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. "

Alan Dershowitz

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" 'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is. "

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

" Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. "

" Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle. "

" In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other. "

Caroline Winberg

" 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. "

" Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. "

" In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice. "

" There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now. "

" Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. "

" Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. "

" Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. "

" Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. "

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" The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan. "

" We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press. "

" Free men are the strongest men. "

Wendell Willkie

" 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. "

" A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity. "

" Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. "

" 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. "

William J. Clinton

" Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. "