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Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

— Jan Peter Balkenende

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

— Paul Gillmor

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

— Bertrand Russell

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

— Vernon Howard

Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

— David Allan Coe

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

When you value people, you give them freedom.

— Martha McSally

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

— Haruki Murakami

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

— Lyn Nofziger

✗Opposing Perspectives

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

— Bryant H. McGill