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“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.”

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Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”

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Author:Peter Marshall

“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”

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Book:The Sociological Imagination

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Please use your freedom to promote ours.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.”

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Author:James Otis

“Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?”

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Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.”

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Author:Andre Malraux

“Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.”

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Author:Joel Osteen