"I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family."
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"I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family."
"The values of democracy, brotherhood, and freedom that constitute the building blocks of American society are also shared by Israeli society, together with the faith in man's power and ability to change and influence his surroundings."
"Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent."
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
"We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government."
"The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom."
"It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you."
"I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family."
"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."
"The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world."
"The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest."
"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
"I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now."
"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
"Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better."
"I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis."
"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
"Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today."
"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."
"We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom."
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