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Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.