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"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage." Thucydides (Ancient Greek historians and author, 460-404bc)

"He who is brave is free." Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900- 1944)

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires" Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. 1813-1855)

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech, September 22, 1936

"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!" Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide." Napoleon Bonaparte

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." Abraham Lincoln

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness." Robert Frost

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952

"History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads." Charles de Gaulle

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought." Charles Kingsley

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." Moshe Dayan

"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." Author unknown

"I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free." Joni Mitchell

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward." Patricia Sampson

"While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." Lenin (1870 - 1924), "State and Revolution", 1919

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

"Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences" Author Unknown

"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free." Walter Cronkite (American Journalist well known for his role as a television news anchor, b.1916)

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

"Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves." Author Unknown

"No one is free when others are oppressed." Author Unknown

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change." Stephen R. Covey

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right." Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond." Jeffrey Borenstein

"Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made." Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom" Andre Gide (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)

"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be." Chuck Palahniuk (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" George Orwell (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)

"Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery." Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

"If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all" Jacob Hornberger

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves" Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun." William Glasser

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be." James Arthur Baldwin (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." Albert Camus (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)

"All good things are wild, and free." Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)