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" There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. "

W. Somerset Maugham

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" I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful. "

" I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. "

" Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. "

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" Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. "

" You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. "

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" It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. "

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" I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. "

" Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. "

" Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. "

Mikhail Bakunin

" I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us. "

" The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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

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

" What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. "

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" Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. "

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" When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth... that's an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem. "

" Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all. "

" Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't 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. "

" In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods. "

" The American Dream is about freedom. "

" Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers. "

" Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. "

" Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. "

Bertrand Russell

" 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. "

" One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. "

" Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom. "

" Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day. "

Charles B. Rangel

" 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 say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. "

" No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. "

William S. Burroughs

" The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. "

Milton Friedman