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

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.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.