"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not."
7
"People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning."
4
"To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons."
7
"Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech."
7
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."
4
"Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity."
3
"For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you."
6
"Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law."
6
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."
5
"We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."
7
"Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
8
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
5
"Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality."
6
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
7
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
6
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
6
"Wedding rings need to be sparkly to remind us not to have sex with other people."
5
"Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition."
6
"A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally."
6
"People didn't just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn't hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit's incomplete."
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