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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Seneca Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Albert Camus Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Orwell Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
    The Freedom of the Press (1972)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Bill Lipinski Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Arthur Bloch Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Jones Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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  • Carson Kressley Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.
    Carson Kressley
    American television personality, actor, and designer (1969 - )
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  • David Pratt Friends will keep you sane,
    Love could fill your heart,
    A lover can warm your bed,
    But lonely is the soul without a mate.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Truman Capote Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • J. Johnson Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
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