938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” — A. J. Liebling

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“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.” — Boris Yeltsin

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“137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.” — Doc Hastings

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“Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.” — E. Stanley Jones

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“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.” — Alice Duer Miller

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“We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.” — Barbara Boxer

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“I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs it was about sexual freedom.” — Calvin Klein

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“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.” — E. M. Forster

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“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.” — Thabo Mbeki

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“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.” — James Russell Lowell

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“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.” — Alan Rickman

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“For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.” — Emile M. Cioran

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“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.” — Will Durant

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“We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.” — Will Durant

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“The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.” — Madeleine Albright

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“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.” — Rollo May

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“The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.” — Marilyn vos Savant

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“Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.” — Alfred Adler

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“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.” — Noam Chomsky

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“The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.” — George W. Bush

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“When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.” — Wendell Willkie

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“Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.” — Charlie Dent

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