Idea Book
Freedom

See also:  Liberty

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things:  freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them  Mark Twain

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be  Voltaire

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power.  He is free again.  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the priviledge to be free  Charles Evans Hughes

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot long retain it  Abraham Lincoln

No one can be perfectly free till all are free  Herbert Spencer

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it  Thomas Paine

No man is free who is not master of himself  Epictetus

The cause of freedom is the cause of God  William Lisle Bowles

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it  Samuel Johnson

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes  Thomas Henry Huxley

A hungry man is not a free man  Adlai E. Stevenson

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it  Voltaire