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" Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. "

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" 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. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. "

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

" Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. "

Svetlana Alexievich

" If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours. "

" Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again. "

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

" Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians. "

" Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. "

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

" 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. "

" Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. "

" My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea. "

" Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom. "

Robert Metcalfe

" The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle. "

" Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. "

Milton Friedman

" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "

" Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. "

Kris Kristofferson

" One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted. "

" The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. "

Anna Julia Cooper

" 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. "

" Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life. "

Rigoberta Menchu

" There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. "

" I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule. "

" When people are like, 'College! Oh my God! Ultimate freedom!' I didn't feel that way. My roommates were loving hitting the town, but I wasn't as psyched about going to the frats. "

Emily Ratajkowski

" The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. "

" Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it. "