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" Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. "

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" History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. "

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" I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. "

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" There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. "

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" Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents. "

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

" Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. "

" People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? "

" The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. "

" It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism. "

" You can only be free if I am free. "

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" I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. "

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" 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? "

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" Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. "

" The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to. "

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

Theodore Roosevelt

" I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. "

" 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. "

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" People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. "

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" To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. "

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" Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. "

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" Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. "

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" The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. "