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" There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. "

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" Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. "

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

Charles Dickens

" The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness. "

" In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. "

" Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress. "

" Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage. "

" Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? "

" Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him. "

Mstislav Rostropovich

" Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence. "

Coretta Scott King

" My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.' "

Malala Yousafzai

" When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom - because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country. "

" How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. "

E. T. A. Hoffmann

" I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows? "

" I want to have freedom with everything I do. "

" Man is not free unless government is limited. "

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

" Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. "

Milton Friedman

" Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. "

Daniel J. Boorstin

" Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. "

" The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. "

" True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. "

" Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom. "

" Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive. "

G. Edward Griffin

" Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "

John F. Kennedy

" A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. "

" It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. "