Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.