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		I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Justin Amash 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Mckellen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Christian Andersen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lamar S. Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Hamilton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zilpha Keatley Snyder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gavrilo Princip 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yevgeny Zamyatin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahatma Gandhi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Romanticism, like the Rousseauist Swinging Sixties, misunderstands the Dionysian as the pleasure principle, when it is in fact the gross continuum of pleasure-pain. Worshiping nature and seeking political and sexual freedom, Romanticism ends in imaginative entrammelment of every kind. Perfect freedom is intolerable and therefore impossible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Camille Paglia 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After seven years of marriage,He wanted out.Now after seven months of freedom,It's clear that there's no doubt.She's gonna make it,And he never will.He's at the foot of the mountain,And she's over that hill.He's sinkin' at sea,And her sails are filled.She's gonna make it,And he never will. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Brooks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ellen Willis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able to reignite a whole entire new generation, not just inside the U.S. but across the globe, centering black people and centering the fight against white supremacy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrisse Cullors 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Truslow Adams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nelson Mandela 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Max Lerner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Kennedy