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"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"No one can enjoy freedom without trembling"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"To be free is to have achieved your life"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
"I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President"
Andrew Jackson, President
"There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone"
Andrew Jackson, President
"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong, I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign"
Anatole France, Novelist
"This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys"
P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist
"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything. The believe in papers. Papers are power"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people, and the freedom here to pursue your dreams"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor
"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor
"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor
"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society"
Pope John Paul II, Clergyman
"Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery"
Pope John Paul II, Clergyman
"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"A forest bird never wants a cage"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
""One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it", merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it""
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people"
Grover Cleveland, President
"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"
George W. Bush, President
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