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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~ Adlai Stevenson- At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in the hour of success. No obstacle has been so constant, or so difficult to overcome, as uncertainty and confusion touching the nature of true liberty. If hostile interests have wrought much injury, false ideas have wrought still more; and its advance is recorded in the increase of knowledge, as much as in the improvement of laws.
- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, in The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, in The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, in The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
- A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.
- Jacob M. Appel, American physician and bioethicist, Next: Assisted Suicide for Healthy People, July 16, 2009.
- If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.
- Jacob M. Appel, American physician and bioethicist, A Culture of Liberty, July 21, 2009.
- Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.
- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. (17 September 2004), quoted in "The 'misunderestimated' president?" BBC News (7 January 2009)
- There ought to be limits to freedom.
- George W. Bush Satirical Web Site Poses Political Test. Washington Post (29 Nov 1999). Retrieved on 2007-08-11.
- We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.
- George W. Bush, President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom. The White House (30 July 2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-30.
- Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
- Benjamin N. Cardozo, Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 327, (1937)
- For so long as but a hundred of us remain alive, we will in no way yield ourselves to the dominion of the English. For it is not for glory, nor riches, nor honour that we fight, but for Freedom, which no good man lays down but with his life.
- From the Declaration of Arbroath, 1302. The Times Book of Quotations (2000)
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein, in Out of My Later Years (1950)
- Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.
- Elbert Hubbard, in his essay on Booker T. Washington in Little Journeys For 1908, p. 21; Franklin D. Roosevelt later used this line on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation: "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
- If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
- Jesus of Nazareth as quoted in John 8:31 (NIV)
- Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
- Jesus as quoted in John 8:31 (KJV)
- What universities are saying by these codes, special protections, and double standards — to women, to blacks, to Hispanics, to gay and lesbian students — is, "You are too weak to live with freedom. You are too weak to live with the First Amendment." If someone tells you you are too weak to live with freedom, they have turned you into a child.
- Alan Kors, "College", Bullshit!
- If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
- W. Somerset Maugham, in Strictly Personal, ch. 31 (1941)
- Freedom's just another word for one more way to get fucked.
- Scott MacDonald, as "Officer Gerard" in Dexter (TV series) (2006)
- FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
- George Orwell, a slogan of the dystopian state in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
- Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.
- Karl Popper in "On Freedom" (1958)
- It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
- Karl Popper in On Freedom, (1958)
- We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
- Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies, (1945)
- Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson in a speech in Detroit, Michigan (7 October 1952)
- Pro libertate"
- "For freedom" or "For liberty"
- Motto of the clan Wallace (also reputed to be the last words of William Wallace)
- Give a man a free hand and he’ll try to put it all over you.
- Mae West, as "Frisco Doll" in Klondike Annie
- True freedom is not a freedom of choice made from a safe distance, like choosing between a strawberry cake or a chocolate cake; true freedom overlaps with necessity, one makes a truly free choice when one's choice puts at stake one's very existence - one does it because one simply "cannot do it otherwise."
- Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.
- Wendy McElroy, Chapter 4 of XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography, 1995.
Lyrics
- Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
- Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you
Lay your body down
- Stephen Stills in "Find The Cost Of Freedom" on 4 Way Street (1970) by Crosby
- I'M FREE! — I'm free,
And freedom tastes of reality,
I'm free — I'm free,
An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.
- Pete Townshend, in "I'm Free" on Tommy by The Who.
- Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
- Joss Whedon, "The Ballad of Serenity" theme to Firefly, performed by Sonny Rhodes
- Believe in all the good things you keep inside
There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind
- Jeremy Enigk, in "Sinatra" by The Fire Theft.
- Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee:Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
- A poem by Rabindranath Tagore about freedom of expression
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