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The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and aff...

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you ca...

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferab...

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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...

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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I ...

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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipati...

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Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own i...

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While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter ca...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly...

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Cuba will be free. I already am.

We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Met...

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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies...

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Our names were made for us in another century.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever capri...

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They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free...

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Richard HofstadterThe American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

He kept thinking about Mary. What a fool he'd been to let her go. To think, with the thoughtless ass...

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When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this ...

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You can't make me do nothing but die!

Where there is love, it is Jesus that will surely triumph.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's cen...

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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matt...

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If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find th...

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Freedom is a hard habit to break.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrar...

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Secrecy begets tyranny.

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish ...

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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or pett...

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Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...

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Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating th...

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Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others...

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... He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new r...

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, t...

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...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicke...

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A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

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The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Govern...

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Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without gove...

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You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as ind...

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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and...

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But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare ...

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It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

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When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...

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Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, ...

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For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and ...

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Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every...

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And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government c...

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Ron PaulLiberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government

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Ron PaulThe Revolution: A Manifesto

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conse...

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and wome...

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in...

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Man is not free unless government is limited.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope...

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Ronald ReaganA Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan

...Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but...

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Ronald ReaganSpeaking My Mind: Selected Speeches

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advan...

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The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nur...

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Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthri...

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If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace g...

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Ronald ReaganThe Quest for Peace

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are ...

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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are ...

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Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for t...

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No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many m...

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Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, ...

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It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measur...

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The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our histor...

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There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated dec...

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In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

True freedom comes from being unknown.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.(Few men desire freedom, the greater part ...

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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don'...

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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative...

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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free peo...

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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to ...

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Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, w...

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The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to...

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Salman RushdieStep Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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Salman RushdieStep Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting br...

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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of f...

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[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the en...

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