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" The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty. "

Jeff Sessions

Loyalty

Country

Freedom

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

" Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America. "

" I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now. "

" I have recently been able to see the new world - the quiet, the tranquility and the freedom it will bring with it. This is very comforting knowledge for me because I already know that what I envision eventually becomes a reality. "

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

" Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge. "

" If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. "

" None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. "

" Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against. "

" Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. "

" Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom

Suffering

You

" I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. "

" Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater. "

" I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point. "

" Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved. "

" We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions. "

" Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom

Oppressed

Forever

" We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

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

Shel Silverstein

Something

Freedom

" I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom. "

" Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators. "

" I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them. "

" 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. "

" The erosion of personal freedom and liberty as a result of federal policy and legislation is alarming. "

" The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. "

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice

Vision

American

" If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny. "

" All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. "

" If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. "

" Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. "