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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    Thomas Jones
     
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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.
    David Pratt
     
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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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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ben Horowitz From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Hilaire Belloc From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Bill Frist From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Barry Eisler From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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