“China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.”
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“Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”
“The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.”
“Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.”
“I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.”
“There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.”
“My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.”
“I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.”
“But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.”
“It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.”
“The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.”
“Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.”
“Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.”
“Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.”
“I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.”
“President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.”
“To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.”
“All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.”
“There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.”
“One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.”
“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.”
“Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.”
“In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.”
“If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.”