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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. – Robert Frost

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. – Nelson Mandela

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. – Bob Dylan

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. – Elbert Hubbard

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. – Mitt Romney

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. – Albert Camus

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. – Albert Camus

Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. – Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom. – Nelson Mandela

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. – Theodore Roosevelt

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. – Samuel Adams

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. – Nelson Mandela

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. – Pope John Paul II

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. – Pope John Paul II

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. – Leo Buscaglia

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

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. – Barack Obama

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. – Oliver Tambo

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. – Rabindranath Tagore

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. – Karl Marx