“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”
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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.”
“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.”
“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.”
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.”
“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”
“Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”
“The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”
“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”