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.

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

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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

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

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 is a possession of inestimable value.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

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