If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
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The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
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I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For me, driving - or the right to drive - is not only about moving from A to B; it's a way… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom… — Jo Ann Davis Copy Share Image
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Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
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Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his… — Charles Fitzgeoffrey Copy Share Image
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