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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere.

I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.