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| Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if it ain't free. And feelin good was easy, Lord, when he played the blues. You know feelin good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee. | | Janis Joplin | |
| He who is brave is free. | | Seneca | |
| I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph | | Cordell Hull | |
| I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. | | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom. | | Winston Churchill | |
| I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom—which is bordered on all sides by isolation—is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life’s banquet. | | Saul Bellow | |
| I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment | | Nelson Mandela | |
| I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just. | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. | | Will Durant | |
| In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. | | Mark Twain | |
| It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. | | Blaise Pascal | |
Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer.
I hate your ideas, but I would have myself killed so that you could have the right to expres them. | | Victor Hugo | |
| Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
