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"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own." -- Margaret Atwood "Live free or die." -- New Hampshire State Motto "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." -- Malcolm X "Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more." -- Robert Collier "No man can put a chain around the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck." -- Frederick Douglass "This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." -- Elmer Davis "Shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom." -- Adlai Stevenson "Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate." -- Hubert H. Humphrey "Posterity. You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it." -- John Adams, president in a letter to Abigail Adams, 1777 "The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought." -- Leon Blum "If freedom could be had for the wishing, everyone would be free, but an unfaltering attachment to freedom, rising above all difficulties and based on facts, not appearances, is rarely found in men, and that is why those who do possess that attachment are considered virtually superhuman." -- Carlos Buonapartos (Father of Napoleon) "Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency." --  Epicurus "Freedom is difficult to reach, but what to do with the freedom is much more difficult." -- André Gide "My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) "What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose." -- Thomas Jefferson "Right has for basis the principle of the equal freedom." -- Benjamim Constant "How dangerous is to free a people that prefers the slavery!" -- Niccolo Machiavelli "Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." --  Harriet Rubin "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." -- Jean-Paul Sartre "Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us." -- Stephen Covey "Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves." -- Dr. Rollo May "Freedom lies in being bold." -- Robert Frost