Nan Aron 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.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.
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I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.
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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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I couldn't use Nest because it doesn't operate with high-end HVAC systems.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.
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Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.
