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

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

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

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.

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

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

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.