A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanAs human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold ToynbeeFreedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
Kris KristoffersenResponsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert HubbardAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord ByronNo amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses
LeninFreedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell ClaytonFreedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan FosterIf we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
Rollo MayIgnorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher AndreaeYet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
Lord ByronThe idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David RiesmanYou are a slave, no liberty, no freedom, no democracy, no human rights [on Makelele]
Jose MourinhoThe moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma GandhiThere 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 GravesWhen you realise what life would be like without the freedoms that we in the West take for granted every day, you realise just how miserable half of human existence has been.
Jim GibbonsFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore RooseveltWhile the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important
Walter J LippmannFreedom comes in individual packages.
Shirley BooneAll of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast
Andre MauroisFreedom 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 GoetheFreedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean Paul SartrePrivate property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Walter LippmannFreedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
Brigitte BoisselierThere must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science.
J Robert OppenheimerNo man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Douglas MacarthurA free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd WrightFreedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Jeffrey BorensteinFreedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Michel FoucaultAmerica was founded on the principle of freedom of speech.
Tom FordThe only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people co-operate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
Milton FriedmanThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheFreedom granted only when it is known that its' effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Friedrich Von HayekI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone De BeauvoirFreedom is a possession of inestimable value.
CiceroOur freedom is but a light that breaks through from another world. (The Tram that Lost its Way)
Nikolai GumilevThe laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
Neville CardusIn a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
Mary RobinsonFreedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
EpictetusFreedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Lisa MurkowskiA growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that their career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't. [quite right too!]
Suzanne FieldsGuitar playing is a release, liberation, put simply it is freedom.
William Christopher HandyWhat is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
Salman RushdieForever 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 DrakeDemocratic 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.
TocquevilleWe do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.
Leon KassMan cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Hannah ArendtMost men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings
Walter J LippmannThere is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson MandelaFreedom is a noble thing! Freedom makes man to have liking: freedom all solace to man gives: he lives at ease that freely lives!
John Barbour
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