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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could pro

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. – Dean Acheson

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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. – Dean Acheson

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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. – James Anthony Froude

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To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. – Shel Silverstein

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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. – Jeffrey Borenstein

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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 wouldnt normally. – Larry David

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. – E. M. Forster

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You have to be vigorous. Thats the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and dont take no for an answer. – Nick Cannon

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The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free. – Henry David Thoreau

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