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Schools should have the freedom to decide their own culture and ethos, determine their approach to discipline, own their land and buildings and decide their own admissions policy.
David Davis

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J G Ballard

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio Berlusconi

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again
Edith Hamilton

Freedom granted only when it is known that its' effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Friedrich Von Hayek

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good (Liberty)
Hartley Coleridge

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)
John Wilmot

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Michel Foucault

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

Freedom can be a frightening thing when you are not used to it.
Zana Muhsen

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean Paul Sartre

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
Rollo May

A standard bearer for freedom, even civilisation [on pornography]
Salman Rushdie

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
Lord Byron

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
Clarence Darrow

They may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom.
Mel Gibson

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus

There are some great points about having so many freedoms as we do in the US, but the downside is people get in who are not deserving of those freedoms and endanger us all.
Sam Graves

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty
Frank Herbert

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

It [racism] is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
Pierre Berton

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
Kris Kristoffersen

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel Boorstin

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to
Hannen Swaffer

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S Truman

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta King

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W Somerset Maugham

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.
Tocqueville

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.
Michel Aoun

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Walter Lippmann

War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Jay Leno

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Hannah Arendt

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses
Lenin

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.
Kofi Annan

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King Jr

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone De Beauvoir

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley Kubrick

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcom X



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