Freedom Quotes
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Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.
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When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.
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Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.
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The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.
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We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.
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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
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Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody.
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Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.
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There could not be a restoration of the gospel without freedom. God provided this country as the base of his operations in these the last days, a place where there would be freedom, where he could restore his gospel.
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Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.
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Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
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To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
