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" There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. "

Charles Kingsley

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" Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. "

Alexander Meiklejohn

" A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. "

" I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity. "

" Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. "

" The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. "

" We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror. "

" Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. "

" Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. "

Alan Dean Foster

" Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built. Any restriction of freedom of speech is a restriction upon democracy. "

" I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat. "

" America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. "

" Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together. "

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" Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom. "

" Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. "

" My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States. "

Andrei Codrescu

" In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. "

" Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. "

" When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. "

Pope John Paul II

" What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did. "

" Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. "

" I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? "

" That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. "

" When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth... that's an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem. "

" Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. "

" The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. "

Maximilien Robespierre

" Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat. "

" For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you. "

" A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity. "

" We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed. "