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

Robert A. Heinlein

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" Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves. "

" Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge. "

" We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world. "

" Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. "

Jean-Paul Marat

" The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. "

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

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

" We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential. "

" I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile. "

Michael Moriarty

" China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. "

" The American middle class used to be envy of the world. It was a byproduct of economic freedom. We had a very dynamic free-market economy and limited government. People were out there pursuing their own self-interest and creating employment opportunities. "

" America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. "

" 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. "

" I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. "

Richard Branson

" Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians. "

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

William Glasser

" Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. "

Wendell Phillips

" It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. "

" The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. "

" If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated. "

" The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works. "

" Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. "

" There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. "

" It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle. "

" 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. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything! "

" Freedom is not enough. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised. "

Ferdinand Marcos