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Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

But it was not until I graduated from Texas A &amp M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

I am not a drug addict. My wild period was not about drugs it was about sexual freedom.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

There is a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you are self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which is not so easy in a car, and you can not cover as much ground walking.

The magic of America is that we are a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That is why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries do not have that.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.