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" In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. "

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" All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. "

" Freedom is control in your own life. "

" Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again. "

" Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. "

Stokely Carmichael

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional. "

" Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom. "

Lawrence Kudlow

" If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means. "

Michele Bachmann

" The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. "

" The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. "

" Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly. "

Hillary Clinton

" Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things. "

" I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America. "

" There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream. "

Archibald MacLeish

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

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

" America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. "

" I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. "

" 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

" The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. "

James McGreevey

" Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden. "

" Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" 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

" We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. "

" Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. "

George Washington

" I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. "