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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."

Men Moving Freedom
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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it."

Numbers Freedom 4 Hour Work Week
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"Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press."

Men Freedom Speech
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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation."

Believe Freedom Yield
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor."

Liberty Freedom Hatred
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand."

World Hands Freedom
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting."

Freedom Fields Preparation
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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
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"O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!"

Home Stars Freedom
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician, Poet, Essayist
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"When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge."

Believe Fighting Freedom
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority."

Doe Freedom Majority
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Felix Adler Philosopher, Social Reformer
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"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state"

Long Church Freedom
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions."

Country Blessing Freedom
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize."

Taken Freedom Progress
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