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" We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. "

William Glasser

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" Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. "

" 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. "

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" Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. "

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" Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. "

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" Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people. "

" I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. "

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" Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. "

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" Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. "

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" Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. "

" I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days. "

" Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands. "

" Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. "

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

" 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. "

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" If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. "

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" Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. "

" It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom. "

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" You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. "

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" Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom. "

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Rabindranath Tagore

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" To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. "

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" Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it. "

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