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We do not appreciate what we have until it is gone. Freedom is like that. It is like air. When you have it, you do not notice it.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that is what freedom is all about.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

Do not ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

I have returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and long-form development that filmmakers did not have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like The Sopranos.

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.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.