#freedom

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#been #commitment #conscience #crucial #faith

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#feeling #freedom #help #i #i want you

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#climbing #doing #doubt #enjoying #first

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#community #different #different faiths #faith #faiths

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#guy #little #someone #speak #stand

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. ↗

— Trent Lott

#easily #established #lasts #never #once

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes. ↗

— Trent Lott

#bound #common #different #even #formed

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value. ↗

— Lance Loud

#freedom #had #less #lust #personal

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it. ↗

— James Lovelock

#got #i #paying #personal #price

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite