Freedom Quotes
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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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Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.
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The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.
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Find myself suddenly in the world and I recognize that I have one right alone: That of demanding human behavior from the other. One duty alone: That of not renouncing my freedom through my choices.
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
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Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
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Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.
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The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
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A radical is one who speaks the truth.
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Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.
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We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.
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I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.
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Freedom is such a gift.
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Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
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But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
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I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.
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Religious freedom is foundational for our country, and we must lead on religious freedom as an example in America.
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
