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" The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. "

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" I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows? "

" I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual. "

" Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. "

" When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism. "

" The work of art is a scream of freedom. "

" Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. "

Bertrand Russell

" History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice. "

" We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. "

" I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die. "

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

" My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living. "

" On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff. "

Laurence Fishburne

" What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people. "

" We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom. "

Shigeru Yoshida

" Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human. "

Murray Rothbard

" The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

Abraham Lincoln

" 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. "

" Man is not free unless government is limited. "

" We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. "

" Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. "

" Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. "

William Lloyd Garrison

" There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. "

" Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him. "

Mstislav Rostropovich

" I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. "

" I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. "

" Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn't spend it - especially if she doesn't spend it. "

Sarah Ban Breathnach

" We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. "