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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our pos

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally – and being an actor you have that freedom. – Carrie-Anne Moss

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They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. – Audie Murphy

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You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom. – Corazon Aquino

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True freedom is the capacity for acting according to ones true character, to be altogether ones self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. – Corliss Lamont

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