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" What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought. "

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

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

" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "

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" Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong. "

" The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. "

" Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad. "

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" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "

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" 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. "

" For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. "

" Freedom is never given; it is won. "

A. Philip Randolph

" We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. "

Edward R. Murrow

" But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. "

" Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. "

" Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive. "

G. Edward Griffin

" Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. "

Robert McNamara

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

Friedrich August von Hayek

" We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures. "

" Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. "

" 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. "

" Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most. "

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

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" I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. "

" The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom. "

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" Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases. "

" People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody. "

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" There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream. "

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" To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. "