Freedom

• "Freedom, the word that the struggled minds never know." --(origin needed)

• "My name means 'above freedom'." --(origin needed)

• "Without freedom, life is not worth living." --(Manuel Belgrano)

• "Freedom is like air, you breathe it in and never thought of it until you go to space." --(origin needed)

• "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." --Janis Joplin in 'Me and Bobby McGee'

• "Hydames, you have not equally weighed each side in your advice to us. For you have tried the one which you advise, the other has remained untried by you. You know what it means to be a slave, but you have never yet tried freedom, to know whether it is sweet or not. For if you had tried it, you would have advised us to fight for it, not merely with spears, but also with axes." -- Spartans Sperthia and Bulis to Persian satrap Hydarnes

• "Freedom is the only way." -- Team America: World Police

• "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of

the brave." -- Elmer Davis, on the US

• "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- Benjamin Franklin

• "You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once." -- Lazarus Long

• "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters." -- Frederick Douglass

• "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."

• "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 it values more, it will lose that, too." -- W. Somerset Maugham

• "A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence." -- Jean Paul Sartre

• "Freedom? Oh, freedom, that's just some people talking, you're in chains while you walk through this life on your own." -- The Eagles

• "All men are born free, and yet everywhere lie in chains." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• "Freedom is free of the need to be free." -- Funkadelic

• "Eλευθερια η θανατος" (Freedom or Death!) -— Cretan War cry.

See also

• ACLU