Kofi Annan Quotes
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry -
I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
Gary Johnson -
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Taslima Nasrin -
Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
Macy Gray -
As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
Natasha Lyonne -
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Wendell Willkie
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke -
He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius -
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Salmon P. Chase -
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
Nancy Pearcey -
I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
Otto Schily
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen -
When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
Nazanin Boniadi -
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
Ralph Hall -
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
Tecumseh -
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx -
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
Vanessa Hudgens -
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.
Maya Angelou -
What you need to know is that who I listen to when I need advice on the Middle East is George W. Bush.
Jeb Bush -
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
Kofi Annan