And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it.
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The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
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Relationshipsof all kindsare like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
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Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
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All we have of freedom all we use or know This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he.. Means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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The freedom fighters of Nicaragua.. Are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.
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I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage.. What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.
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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions..
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If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.
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Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
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