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 MaughamFreedom is a noble thing! Freedom makes man to have liking: freedom all solace to man gives: he lives at ease that freely lives!
John BarbourAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord ByronThe United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S TrumanA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim MorrisonIn human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne LangerRemove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
David OgilvyBut what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
A universal licence to be good (Liberty)
Hartley ColeridgeAmerica was founded on the principle of freedom of speech.
Tom FordUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanA filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley KubrickFreedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Adlai StevensonThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight EisenhowerIn a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J G BallardFreedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A J LieblingLet freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson MandelaAmericans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
TocquevilleForever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?
'The American Flag'
Joseph Rodman DrakeYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous HuxleyCommunists 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 MandelaFreedom is the right to live as we wish.
EpictetusFreedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean Paul SartreI can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Zell MillerFreedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Adlai E StevensonThey may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom.
Mel GibsonTyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles PeguyWe must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom
Steve ForbesAll of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast
Andre MauroisIn the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.
Luiz Felipe ScolariMen are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert CamusThe desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore RooseveltWhen the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again
Edith HamiltonI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone De BeauvoirI do not want it [the Freedom of Information Act] to be a political football. I do not want the fuss about the way the political parties are using it to obliterate what it's really about.
John MajorThe link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio BerlusconiThe only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart MillThe enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot (End of an Age)
William Ralph IngeThe freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Grace KellyFreedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon HowardEmancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath TagoreGuitar playing is a release, liberation, put simply it is freedom.
William Christopher Handy...Natural freedoms are but just:
There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)
John WilmotWar continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Jay LenoFreedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King JrSatisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free passage and freedom of action to all buyers and sellers whoever they may be.
Francois QuesnayWe must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper
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