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Quotes About Freedom

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
~ John O. Brennan
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
~ James H. Douglas, Jr.
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
~ Dean Kamen
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
~ Doc Hastings
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
~ Gijs de Vries
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
~ Ed Miliband
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
~ Lyn Nofziger
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
~ Olympia Snowe
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
~ Noam Chomsky
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
~ Salman Rushdie
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.
~ Manuel Valls
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
~ Oswald Chambers
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.
~ Frederick Lenz
The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.
~ Whittaker Chambers
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
~ Paul Theroux
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
~ Alvin Toffler
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
~ Walt Whitman
All go free when multitudes offend.
~ Lucan
We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.
~ Tom Scholz