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" One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. "

Ferdinand Mount

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" There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit. "

Maria Montessori

" The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking. "

" 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. "

" I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that? "

Ralph Abernathy

" My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States. "

Andrei Codrescu

" As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. "

James D. Watson

" So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. "

" Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. "

Milton Friedman

" I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go. "

Bradley Wiggins

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

" The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. "

John F. Kennedy

" We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom. "

" A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. "

George H. W. Bush

" All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. "

Winston Churchill

" If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me. "

" A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. "

" The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck. "

" Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. "

Alan Dean Foster

" But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. "

" Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. "

" The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything. "

" I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. "

" 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

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

" It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom. "

" True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. "

" We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. "

" The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. "