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• If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, America, Goal

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• Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

  Alan Keyes

  Responsibility, Firsts

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• If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

  Philip Wylie

  Mean, Liberty, Ifs

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• The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

  Albert Camus

  Action, Individual, Midst

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.56, Vintage

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• Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

  Anne Roe

  Doe

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• No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

  Bob Dylan

  Hippie, I Hate You, Sky

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• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  Mae West

  Funny Love, Running, Wedding

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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, 4th Of July

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

  Edmund Burke

  Atheism, Superstitions, Anarchy

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, May, Granted

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• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, People

  Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

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• The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Ideas, Creative, Groups

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• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Men, Democracies Have

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.238, Cosimo, Inc.

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• American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

  E. W. Howe

  Talking, Nonsense, Talking Nonsense

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• Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

  Jason Mraz

  Art, Travel, Cheer

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• Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Born, Chains

  "Die Worte des Glaubens", Stanza 2 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

  Ayn Rand

  Political, Mind, Economic

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• My angel,-his name is Freedom,-
  Choose him to be your king;
  He shall cut pathways east and west,
  And fend you with his wing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Angel, Cutting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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• Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

  P. K. Page

  Men, World, Aperture

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• Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Doe, Live Free

  "Iphigenia auf Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

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• If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

  Jon Rappoport

  Matter, Payoff, Ifs

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• It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

  Emile Faguet

  Sheep, Would Be, Born

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• We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
  That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
  Which Milton held.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Faith, Tongue

  'It is not to be thought of' (1807)

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• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Integrity, Struggle

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• You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Death, Suicide

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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