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" The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression. "

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" No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. "

" To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot. "

" I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails. "

" If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people. "

Henry A. Wallace

" That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. "

" Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. "

" Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly. "

Hillary Clinton

" The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. "

" I discovered freedom for the first time in England. "

Emperor Hirohito

" The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. "

" We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons. "

" The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. "

" If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. "

Fannie Lou Hamer

" The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech. "

" 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. "

" While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected. "

" The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. "

" Freedom is not enough. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Responsibility is the price of freedom. "

" Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. "

" Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. "

Melissa Etheridge

" But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. "

" Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. "

" Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom. "

" 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

" 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

" The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves. "

" The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. "

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