The 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 FriedmanA filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley KubrickWhat we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy.
Dick GephardtThe word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order'. Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.
Prince MetternichFreedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
Brigitte BoisselierThe cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia CooperThe greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard BaruchUltimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn FergusonOne should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom
Henrik IbsenWe are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E M ForsterIt is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas MannPrivate property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Walter LippmannYou can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcom XForever 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 DrakeI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone De BeauvoirThe State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma GoldmanUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanA standard bearer for freedom, even civilisation [on pornography]
Salman RushdieResponsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert HubbardForgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah ArendtThe freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John MortimerYour 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 HuxleyMan should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
Anthony EdenHe hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within
Quintus EnniusYou are a slave, no liberty, no freedom, no democracy, no human rights [on Makelele]
Jose MourinhoIgnorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher AndreaeHis 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 AnnanWriting is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLilloA big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze OrmanThe freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Grace KellyThe enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot (End of an Age)
William Ralph IngeEconomic 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 ArendtMemorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances... a day to honour those who died defending our freedom.
Doc HastingsThere 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 MandelaNecessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William PittFreedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa LuxemburgI believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta KingWe clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Vernon HowardAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord ByronRemove 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 OgilvyA 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 FieldsFreedom granted only when it is known that its' effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Friedrich Von HayekFreedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin CardozoFreedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
Kris KristoffersenWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert SpencerFreedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon HowardA hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanA man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous HuxleyThe revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI 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 Major
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