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Quotes About Freedom

Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free.
~ bell hooks
I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.
~ Helen Mirren
I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.
~ Anthony Quinn
The secret of freedom, courage.
~ Thucydides
Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom is a clear conscience.
~ Periander
Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.
~ Charb
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
~ Sigrid Undset
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
~ Patrick Henry
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
~ Stephen Fry
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
~ Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
Man is not free unless government is limited.
~ Ronald Reagan
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.
~ Robert Spencer
In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No one who lives in error is free.
~ Euripides
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."
~ Ralph Barton Perry
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
~ Vaclav Klaus
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
~ Saint Augustine
When I get older, I will be stronger They'll call me freedom, just like a Wavin' Flag
~ K'naan
Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.
~ George Carlin
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
~ John F. Kennedy
absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.
~ Gertrude Himmelfarb