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" A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy. "

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" There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom. "

" The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. "

" The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. "

" Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become. "

" Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. "

" I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails. "

" I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom. "

" How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. "

Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom Of Speech

" They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. "

" Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government. "

Joe Wurzelbacher

" Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. "

" The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. "

" Freedom is the recognition of necessity. "

Friedrich Engels

" The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen. "

" I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. "

" We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror. "

" To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. "

" Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. "

" Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat. "

" We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation. "

" Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly. "

Hillary Clinton

" That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. "

" Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. "

Pope John Paul II

" The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle. "

" Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human. "

Murray Rothbard

" While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected. "