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Quotes About Freedom

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
~ John Milton, Comus
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
~ Unknown
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.
~ Kurt Cobain
Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.
~ Mike Pence
Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.
~ Lucien Bourjeily
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
~ Jacob Bronowski
I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.
~ Damien Hirst
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
~ Joseph Hopkinson
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.
~ Gao Xingjian
The other side of every fear is a freedom.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
~ Cathy Rigby
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.
~ Calvin Coolidge
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
~ Quintus Ennius
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.
~ Elton John
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
~ Ernestine Rose
Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
~ Shimon Peres
The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
~ John Zerzan
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
~ Walter Lippmann
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche