“The American dream is about freedom.”
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“Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.”
“The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.”
“I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.”
“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.”
“Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.”
“Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”
“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.”
“The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.”
“Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
“I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.”
“To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?”
“I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.”
“No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.”
“Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.”
“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.”
“So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.”
“There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.”
“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”
“The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.”
“Our forefathers got it they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.”
“The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.”
“Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.”
“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”