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| We who officially value FREEDOM of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| We are willing enough to praise FREEDOM when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| If the FREEDOM of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. | George Washington | 1732-1799, First President of the USA |
| The FREEDOM of the press works in such a way that there is not much FREEDOM from it. | Grace | Patricia) Kelly (1929-82, American Actress and Princess of Monaco |
| At no time is FREEDOM of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. | Marshall Lumsden | |
| The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for FREEDOM that flies out between all bars. | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-, South African Author |
| If we don't believe in FREEDOM of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. | Noam Chomsky | 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist |
| How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have FREEDOM of thought, they demand FREEDOM of speech. | Soren Kierkegaard | 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer |
| People demand FREEDOM of speech to make up for the FREEDOM of thought which they avoid. | Soren Kierkegaard | 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer |
| Already the writers are complaining that there is too much FREEDOM. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. | Tatyana Tolstaya | |
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| I have always been among those who believed that the greatest FREEDOM of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more FREEDOM of choice in regard to dress, behaviour, career, and sexual orientation. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of FREEDOM, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| America is a model of force and FREEDOM and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the FREEDOM our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. | Norman Thomas | 1884-1968, American Socialist Leader |
| That's free enterprise, friends: FREEDOM to gamble, FREEDOM to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of FREEDOM. | John Enoch Powell | 1912-, British statesman, |
| The FREEDOM to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than FREEDOM of speech. | John Mortimer | 1923-, British Barrister, Novelist |
| The only thing money gives you is the FREEDOM of not worrying about money. | Johnny Carson | 1925-, American TV Personality, Businessman |
| History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political FREEDOM. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. | Milton Friedman | 1912-, American Economist |
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| Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their FREEDOM, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of FREEDOM movements. | Nelson Mandela | 1918-, South African President |
| When money is taken FREEDOM is forsaken. | Proverb | |
| They want to be free and they do not know how to be just. | Abbe Sieyes | |
| Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| FREEDOM is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| FREEDOM is the last, best hope of earth. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Those who deny FREEDOM to others, deserve it not for themselves. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| In giving FREEDOM to the slave, we assure FREEDOM to the free -- honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| FREEDOM is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. | Adam Clayton Powell | African-American politician |
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| FREEDOM is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than FREEDOM to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| We have confused the free with the free and easy. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| A hungry man is not a free man. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| FREEDOM is just chaos with better lighting. | Alan Dean Foster | |
| Without culture, and the relative FREEDOM it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of FREEDOM: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| FREEDOM is nothing else but a chance to be better. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| The only conception of FREEDOM I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is FREEDOM of thought and action. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Without FREEDOM, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without FREEDOM, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without FREEDOM, the press will never be anything but bad. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
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| The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. | Albert Pike | 1809-1891, American Lawyer, Masonic Author, Historian |
| A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's FREEDOM after it. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive FREEDOM. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with FREEDOM of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real FREEDOM of discussion as in America. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| For in the end, FREEDOM is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. | Alice Walker | 1944-, American Author, Critic |
| No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new FREEDOM so easily. | Andre Breton | 1989-1966, French Surrealist |
| Men who want to support women in our struggle for FREEDOM and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| FREEDOM is the by-product of economic surplus. | Aneurin Bevan | 1897-1960, British Labor Politician |
| By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. | Angelus Silesius | |
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