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In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
Henry Charles Carey
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Freedom: An occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
John Ralston Saul
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You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
Scott Westerfeld
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The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
Gertrude Himmelfarb
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
William O. Douglas
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I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Wilma Rudolph
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl
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It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.
June Jordan
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.
Dan Quayle
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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free. This is what I want. I want nothing more. I have been seeking freedom.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
Jacques Prévert
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.
Gerry Adams
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Frederick Douglass
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg
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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
Franz Boas
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
Luis Buñuel
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you.
Harriet Jacobs
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
Walter Lippmann
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert Humphrey
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
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