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Quotes About Freedom

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
~ George W Bush
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
~ Sigmund Freud
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency
~ Epicurus
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
~ Clarence Darrow
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
~ Albert Camus
What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~ Moshe Dayan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
~ Ronald Reagan
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
~ Robert A Heinlein
To be free is to have achieved your life.
~ Tennessee Williams
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
~ Alan Dean Foster
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
~ Robert A Heinlein
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
~ Albert Einstein
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
~ Epictetus
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
~ Voltaire
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear
~ George Orwell
Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
~ Mahatma Gandhi