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• I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

  Gary Gilmore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Wanted, Freedom

• The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

  Franz von Papen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in National, Freedom, Political

• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you’re not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don’t know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Freedom, Community

• To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poem, Freedom, Like

• My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

  Franz Boas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emotional, Freedom, Home

• Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Slavery

• Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Discipline

• We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: ‘Freedom is not free.’ It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

  Paul Gillmor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Painful

• I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn’t get in bad, bad trouble.

  Paul Giamatti

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Freedom

• The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

  Bill Richardson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

  Bill Owens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commitment, Freedom

• Freedom is contagious. That’s why despots fear it so much.

  Bill Owens

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Freedom

• Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Freedom

• The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

  Bill Frist

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Enemies

• Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect – freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  Frank Murphy

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Freedom, Action

• Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

  Frank Murphy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religious, Sacred, Freedom

• Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

  Frank Gaffney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expression, Resolution, Freedom

• I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

  Frank Frazetta

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Successful, Inspired

• In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom