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“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.”

“Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.”

Knows Believe Heart May Said Spirit Freedom Liberty Believe In Me Indulge Free Spirit

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.”

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Book:The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”

Kind Said Given Freedom Anarchy Aunt Handmaids Handmaids Tale

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.”

Trying Said Done Freedom Relationship Wise Words Letting Go Wings Separation Gentle Novelists Damage Be You Butterfly Break Up Powder Kinder Splitting

Book:The Rose Garden

Source: The Rose Garden

“Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.”

Has Beens Said Freedom Christianity Democracy

Author:Stuart Chase

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been”

World Has Beens Said Government Form Time Freedom Sin Perfect Democracy Wise Society Worst This World Woe Forms Of Government Democracies Have

Author:Winston Churchill

“I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”

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Author:Greta Garbo

“I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'”

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Author:Gustave Courbet

“Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans -- the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering."”

Said Two States Easy Differences Freedom United Talking Liberty United States Speech Constitution Guarantees Soviet Freedom Of Speech Gathering American Constitution

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan