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" War - hard apprenticeship of freedom. "

Edward Everett Hale

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" No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. "

" People demand freedom only when they have no power. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. "

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

" If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. "

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Emperor Hirohito

" The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. "

" There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme. "

" 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. "

" Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. "

Alan Dean Foster

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Kris Kristofferson

" There is no such thing as part freedom. "

" Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. "

" I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension. "

" Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom. "

" I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me. "

" Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. "

Jean-Michel Jarre

Freedom Of Speech

" Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. "

" I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom. "

" If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. "

" In communism, we never had any freedom - of movement, of speech, of press. We didn't even make own decisions for our lives, our future. We were human robots. "

" We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. "

" Podcasting is great. Total freedom. "

" We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" 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

" 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. "