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No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. T — Luis Valdez
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right. — Peter Marshall
Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been — Robert H. Jackson
My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking w — Adam Carolla
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own i — Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their — Michael J. Sandel, Liberalism and Its Critics
… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the safeguar — General Robert E. Lee
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom. — Craig D. Lounsbrough
Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose bot — Craig D. Lounsbrough
Free elections don't always result in fair elections. — DaShanne Stokes
An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free. — DaShanne Stokes
Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drift — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. — Phyllis Schlafly
Rare are the handful of principles that incessantly drive us to stand even when we face the stark realization that we wi — Craig D. Lounsbrough
If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can s — Craig D. Lounsbrough
The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity f — G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of freedom. In this land th — E.B. White, One Man's Meat
Censorship is alive and well in America. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on thes — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir