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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918

The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.

—al-Busiri, c. 1250

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.

—H.L. Mencken, 1925

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.

—Margot Asquith, 1922

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

—Pericles, c. 431 BC

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

—James Baldwin, 1961
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