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

George Washington

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" To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about. "

" If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated. "

" Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? "

" 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

" Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. "

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

Hunter S. Thompson

" 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. "

" Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. "

" The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. "

" It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. "

George Washington

" I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. "

" Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility. "

" The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people. "

" Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty. "

" The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period. "

" Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. "

" Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. "

" 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

" God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. "

" Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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

" Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. "

" In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing. "

Langston Hughes

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

" I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. "

Frederick Douglass

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

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