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I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.
The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.
We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.
Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.
Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
Wireless is freedom. It's about being unleashed from the telephone cord and having the ability to be virtually anywhere when you want to be.
I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"