“With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.”
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“I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.”
“The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.”
“That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.”
“Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'”
“Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.”
“Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.”
“All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.”
“When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.”
“They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.”
“Our work is a scream of freedom.”
“With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.”
“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”
“American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.”
“Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.”
“Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.”
“Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.”
“The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.”
“I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.”
“But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.”
“If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.”
“Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.”
“It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.”
“That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.”