- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom Quotes
Freedom looks different depending on what you're free from.
Freedom shows up here in several forms - the room a genre gives an artist to take risks, the flexibility educators say they need to get real results, and the broader idea of personal liberty pushing back against overreach. For a related theme, see Courage Quotes.
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- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any time I can spend time with my brothers and sisters who fight for this country and fight for freedom, it's a positive thing.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
- Nov 07, 2020
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
- German People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
- Common Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020