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Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Lisa Murkowski

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important
Walter J Lippmann

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Foster

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

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Zell Miller

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Adlai Stevenson

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings
Walter J Lippmann

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

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

Freedom 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

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

Freedom: An occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
John Ralston Saul

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

The obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Ruth Ginsburg

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt

Your 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 Huxley

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact
Julie Burchill

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

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King Jr

No man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Douglas Macarthur

Writing 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 DeLillo

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

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Grace Kelly

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 Friedman

Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.
Alberto Gonzales

In 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 Robinson

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom
Frederick Forsyth

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

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom
Henrik Ibsen

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Vernon Howard

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard

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

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher Andreae

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard

The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus

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

You 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 Quesnay

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Tocqueville

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

This story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above all things, this story is about love
Moulin Rouge

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
William O Douglas

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King



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