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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Hannah Arendt

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Jay Leno

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
Neville Cardus

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean Paul Sartre

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
Zell Miller

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good (Liberty)
Hartley Coleridge

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone De Beauvoir

Schools should have the freedom to decide their own culture and ethos, determine their approach to discipline, own their land and buildings and decide their own admissions policy.
David Davis

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer

This story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above all things, this story is about love
Moulin Rouge

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom
Henrik Ibsen

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold Toynbee

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John Gardner

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
Salman Rushdie

I gave my life for freedom - This I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. (Five Souls, 1971)
William Norman Ewer

A good and faithful servant of God has been called home.

The world has lost a champion of peace and freedom. [on Pope John Paul II]
George W Bush

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom
Steve Forbes

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to
Hannen Swaffer

I believe there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those doing the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I dont think it will be based on the colour of the skinYou're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcom X

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Lisa Murkowski

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again
Edith Hamilton

We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.
Leon Kass

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cicero

America was founded on the principle of freedom of speech.
Tom Ford

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov

English culture has always allowed room for the freedom to express, especially through fashion, and the punk era has remained a strong influence on British attitudes, art and music.
Shaun Leane

A standard bearer for freedom, even civilisation [on pornography]
Salman Rushdie

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin Cardozo

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.
Michel Aoun

Freedom can be a frightening thing when you are not used to it.
Zana Muhsen

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth
Henrik Ibsen

No man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Douglas Macarthur

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
William O Douglas

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact
Julie Burchill

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A J Liebling



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