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Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert Hubbard

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Jeffrey Borenstein

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker

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

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell Clayton

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

The 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 Riesman

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela Davis

There 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 Mandela

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
June Jordan

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
James H Douglas

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

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard

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

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

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

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
Salman Rushdie

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John Gardner

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer

Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom
William Godwin

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses
Lenin

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

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A J Liebling

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

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

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Ed Murrow

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

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

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

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus

The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot (End of an Age)
William Ralph Inge

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cicero

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

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

Defender and promoter of freedom and democracy [on George W Bush]
Silvio Berlusconi

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy.
Dick Gephardt

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

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

The 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 Mill

A good and faithful servant of God has been called home.

The world has lost a champion of peace and freedom. [on Pope John Paul II]
George W Bush



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