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The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."
For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.
Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.