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Quotes About Freedom

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.
~ Pierre Trudeau
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
~ Frederick Forsyth
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
~ Jean Rostand
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
~ Richard Stallman
There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
~ Tommy Franks
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.
~ James A. Baldwin
The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
~ Ai Weiwei
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.
~ Matt Ridley
Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.
~ Nelson Mandela
Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
~ William Barclay
Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.
~ James A. Baldwin
... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.
~ Suze Orman
Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.
~ Unknown
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.
~ E. O. Wilson
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
~ Max Stirner
It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .
~ Victor Davis Hanson
National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.
~ Ralph Nader
Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.
~ Nhat Hanh
Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.
~ Unknown
Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
~ Tony Benn