Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Liberty, n. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.
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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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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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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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I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
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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.
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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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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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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
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I like to play as a No. 10. I think I have more freedom offensively. For Belgium, we have full backs who run hard and create a lot of space, which is good, and I like to play there.
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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening.
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Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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Liberty, n. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.
