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" Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things. "

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" I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. "

" People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? "

" Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge. "

" Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. "

" I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter. "

" What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. "

" The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing. "

Ricardo Alarcon

" I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual. "

" No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. "

" Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers. "

" The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. "

" There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people. "

Henry A. Wallace

" 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. "

Aung San Suu Kyi

" He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down. "

" If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. "

" We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom. "

" Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat's personality is never bet on a human's. He demands acceptance on his own terms. "

Lloyd Alexander

" The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. "

" When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. "

" Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. "

Frederick Douglass

" To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. "

" I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression. "

" I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy. "

" You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. "

" I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. "

Charles Dickens

" Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. "

" Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. "

William Lloyd Garrison