- Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
- Charles Schumer on Freedom
- God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
- John Calvin on Freedom
- Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
- George Will on Freedom
- Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
- William Hague on Freedom
- Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
- Friedrich Schiller on Freedom
- Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
- Alan Dershowitz on Freedom
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