"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves." Virginia Woolf

"Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us." John Irving, novelist (b. 1942)

"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking." Woodrow T. Wilson

"We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights." Felix Frankfurter

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom." Bob Dylan

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." Jean-Paul Sartre

"The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard." Sloan Wilson

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." Thomas Paine

"Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will." 
Mark Twain

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

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

"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

"People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security." Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

"Between Stimulus and response, there's a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our freedom." Victor Frankl

"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice." Lin Yutang

"A friend who lies for you may also lie against you." Unknown

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." Abraham Lincoln

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." Charles Evans Hughes

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." Albert Einstein

"Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity." Herbie Hancock

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge; both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American motivational author & speaker 

"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." Aung San Suu Kyi

"Free yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our mind." Bob Marley, Redemption Songs

"The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others." Carlo Dossi, author and diplomat (1849-1910)

"The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken." Antonio Porchia

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." William Faulkner

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

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." Albert Camus

"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. " Robert J. McCracken

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.” Fortune cookie

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” Oprah Winfrey

“When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.” Brian S. Wesbury, American Economist

“We find our freedom along the guiding lines of discipline.” Yehudi Menuhin

“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.” Albert Camus (1913-1960) Algerian-French novelist, essayist, playwright

“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.” Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.” Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) US President (1801-09)

“When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.” James X. Mullen