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| The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. | | T.S. Eliot | |
| The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. | | John Stuart Mill | |
| The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse | | Jules Renard | |
| The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. | | Albert Camus | |
| The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea | | Max Lerner | |
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| The truth shall set you free. | | Bible | |
| The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members | | Harry S Truman | |
| The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency | | Aldous Huxley | |
| The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority | | Henrik Ibsen | |
| There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions | | Anais Nin | |
| There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside. | | Richard Bach | |
| There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es | | Abraham Maslow | |
| There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. | | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
