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Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I am just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I am thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

The Bird's Nest National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of fair competition. It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Patrick Henry did not say, Give me absolutely safety or give me death. America is supposed to be about freedom.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

There is a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it is where all the freaks go - it is the environment for me.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

I mean there is enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It is hard to see.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There is sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

We are all different. Yet we are all God children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that do not have it. He did not specify how.