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" Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? "

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" I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. "

" Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. "

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

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

" 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

" Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. "

" When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to. "

" One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness. "

Ezra Taft Benson

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

Abraham Lincoln

" Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. "

Arthur Erickson

" Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. "

" 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. "

Alan Dershowitz

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" 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. "

" The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. "

" The only certain freedom's in departure. "

" As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. "

" People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. "

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" Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. "

" I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will. "

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

Shel Silverstein

" For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. "

" The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. "

" The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. "

William O. Douglas

" You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices. "

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

" Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. "

" The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period. "

" True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. "

" I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. "

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