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Freedom

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. – Hillary Clinton

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. – W. Somerset Maugham

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. – Rabindranath Tagore

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. – Epictetus

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly. – Hillary Clinton

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is the right to live as we wish. – Epictetus

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell

Freedom – to walk free and own no superior. – Walt Whitman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. – George W. Bush

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. – John Locke

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. – Milton Friedman

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. – Stanley Kubrick

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival. – Noam Chomsky

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. – Wole Soyinka

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. – Vladimir Lenin