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" When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism. "

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" What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people. "

Robert Kennedy

Hero

Voice

Violence

" The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. "

" I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things. "

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Children

Happy

Freedom

" It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. "

" Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. "

" When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom. "

" Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater. "

" I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that. "

" History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free. "

" We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions. "

" Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. "

" I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population. "

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

" If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! "

Mother Jones

Freedom

Class

" A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. "

" I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom. "

" Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. "

" Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat. "

" I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down. "

" Now I can go back to being ruthless again. "

" We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. "

" We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. "

" I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. "

" Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. "

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

Friedrich August von Hayek

Known

Will

Freedom

" Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. "

" True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

People

True

Independence

" The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. "

" 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. "

" Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases. "