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

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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. "

" None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. "

" I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving. "

" To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. "

Shel Silverstein

" I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. "

" I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. "

Simone de Beauvoir

" No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. "

William S. Burroughs

" I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay. "

" Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform. "

" Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. "

Michel Foucault

" The American Dream is about freedom. "

" True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. "

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

" The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. "

" A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. "

" The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. "

" 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

" I want to have freedom with everything I do. "

" Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. "

Marquis de Lafayette

" Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. "

" Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most. "

Haruki Murakami

" Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

" Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. "

" The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. "

" Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" I wouldn't say that dittoheads, as a group, lack the ability to reason. It's just that whenever I run across one, he seems to be at a low ebb in reasoning skills. "

" But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem. "

Jean-Claude Van Damme