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" Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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" Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent. "

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" I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. "

" Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. "

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" Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. "

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

" 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. "

" Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics. "

" Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. "

" I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish. "

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" I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. "

" How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. "

E. T. A. Hoffmann

" I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom. "

" The nearer the dawn the darker the night. "

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" Free men are the strongest men. "

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" As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. "

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" We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom. "

" A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves. "

" What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. "

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

" Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality. "

" 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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" History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. "

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" I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. "

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" No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. "

" You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. "

" The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. "

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" The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. "

" Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America. "