“I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.”
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“As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.”
“I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.”
“I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.”
“I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.”
“As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.”
“I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.”
“Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.”
“As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.”
“I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.”
“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.”
“I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.”
“I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.”
“I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.”
“Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.”
“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”
“One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.”
“I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.”
“In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”
“You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'”
“Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”
“I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.”
“The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.”
“I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.”