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America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. --Adlai Stevenson |
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations. --George Bernard Shaw |
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. --Dick Cheney |
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. --Albert Camus |
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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. --Louis D. Brandeis |
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? --Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. --Lyndon B. Johnson |
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Freedom's natal day is here. --Florence A. Jones |
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A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. --Curtis Billings |
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. --Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. --Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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