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[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

Open up your plans and damn you're free!

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.

Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

Peace is its own reward.

People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Perhaps freedom from ideas of freedom - is the sweetest freedom of all.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

Place is security, space is freedom.

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!