“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.”
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“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.”
“I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.”
“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
“I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.”
“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”
“B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”
“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”
“For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.”
“Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
“Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.”
“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”
“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.”
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.”
“The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.”
“A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.”
“It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.”
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.”
“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.”
“It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.”
“The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.”