“When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.”
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“Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.”
“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.”
“Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.”
“The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a d--n about democracy if I am worried about survival.”
“There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.”
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”
“While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.”
“There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.”
“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.”
“The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.”
“If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.”
“Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.”
“I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.”
“The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.”
“I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.”
“Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.”
“Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.”
“Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.”
“Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.”
“I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.”
“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”
“Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.”
“I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.”