“What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.”
— Ben Nelson
Author: Ben Nelson
Category: freedom
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“So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.”
— Floyd Abrams
Author: Floyd Abrams
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“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”
— William Wordsworth
Author: William Wordsworth
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“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Category: freedom
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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.”
— Jonathan Sacks
Author: Jonathan Sacks
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“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”
— Elbert Hubbard
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.”
— Henry A. Wallace
Author: Henry A. Wallace
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“As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Author: Arnold J. Toynbee
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“All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.”
— Jim Ramstad
Author: Jim Ramstad
Category: freedom
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“The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.”
— Ho Chi Minh
Author: Ho Chi Minh
Category: freedom
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