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" The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. "

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" Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. "

Milton Friedman

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

Sandra Day O'Connor

" 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

" So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. "

" Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom. "

" People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people. "

" I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended. "

" Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "

" America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. "

" 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. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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

" Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. "

" Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. "

" 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. "

" In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing. "

Langston Hughes

" Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility. "

" I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. "

" I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus. "

Russell Simmons

" The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. "

" Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family. "

" Freedom is the right to live as we wish. "

" Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. "

John Ralston Saul

" If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. "

" Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. "

Felix Frankfurter