“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.”
— John Calvin
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“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”
— Moshe Dayan
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“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.”
— Henrik Ibsen
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“America is just the country that 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.”
— Peter Kropotkin
Author: Peter Kropotkin
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“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
— Peter Ustinov
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“The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.”
— Phyllis Schlafly
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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
— Benjamin Britten
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“The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.”
— John Linder
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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.”
— John F. Kennedy
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“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
— Marilyn Monroe
Author: Marilyn Monroe
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