Freedom Quotes
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My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
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Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.
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The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
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Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... In the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.
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It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
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To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.
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I will also talk about my experience of growing up in the former Soviet Union, where mathematics became an outpost of freedom in the face of an oppressive regime. I was denied entrance to Moscow State University because of the discriminatory policies of the Soviet Union. The doors were slammed shut in front of me. I was an outcast. But I didn’t give up. I would sneak into the University to attend lectures and seminars. I would read math books on my own, sometimes late at night. And in the end, I was able to hack the system. They didn’t let me in through the front door; I flew in through a window. When you are in love, who can stop you?
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Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.
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The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
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No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.
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The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.
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I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.
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Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
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My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
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If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
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The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we're not relying on outsiders.
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After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
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I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.
