The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
Freedom of thoughts are more important than any other kind of freedom.
Liberty does not mean freedom to do anything;but freedom to do right thing.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.
I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
