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Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Author Unknown
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
Author Unknown
Freedom is never free.
Curtis Billings
A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.
Dick Cheney
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Elmer Davis
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1905
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Hamilton Fish
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
John Burroughs, Journal
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
Joseph Addison
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom is not enough.
Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Milton Acorda
Without freedom, no one really has a name.
Moshe Dayan
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Paul Sweeney
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914
We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
Thomas Macaulay
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
 
 
 
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