'To beginwith,' hesaid heavily,'you've gottounderstand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.'

-Bach, Richard
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

   The Parliament of England cannot have on earth so strong pillars and pregnant supporters of all their were always told there is one golden rule: no hanky panky in theTardis.

-Baillie, Robert
  On playing Doctor  Who. Quoted in the Sunday Times,7 Mar.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedomissomething peopletakeand peopleareasfree as they want to be.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
Nobody Knows My Name,'Notes for a Hypothetical Novel'.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Speech, Dec.

I sometimesthink that running hasgiven me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.

-Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert
  First Four Minutes.

A! fredome is a noble thing! Fredome mayss man to haiff liking, Fredome all solace to man giffis: He levys at ess that frely levys!

-Barbour,John
c.1375  The Brus, bk.1, l.225^8.

The chief captain answered,With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said,But I was free born.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 22:27^8.

Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means you shall not do something to people for views they have, express, speak, or write.

-Black, Hugo LaFayette
Quotedin Irving Dillard (ed) OneMan'sStand for Freedom (1963).

Death is the supreme Festival on the road to freedom.

-Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
  Letter, collected in Widerstand und Ergebung (1951, translated1953).

The author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer, Second Collect, for Peace.

Once regarded as the herald of enlightenment in all spheres of knowledge, science is now increasingly seen as a strictly instrumental system of control. Its use as a system of manipulation and its role in restricting human freedomnow parallel in everydetail itsuseas a means of natural manipulation.

-Bookchin, Murray pseudonym of  Lewis Herber
  The Ecology of Freedom.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

-Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker
  What  America Means To Me, ch.4.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

F and W gang thegither, Tak aff your dram!

-Burns, Robert
REEDOMHISKY1786  'The  Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer, to the Right Honorable and Honorable, the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons', stanza 30.

You'refree. And freedomisbeautiful. And,you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and orderöorder out of chaos. But we will.

-Bush, GeorgeW(alker)
  Speaking in Washington,13  Apr.

Art,Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 87.

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriekedöas Kosciusko fell!

-Campbell,Thomas
  The Pleasures of Hope, pt.1, l.381^2.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

-Cardus, Sir Neville
Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberte¤   de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du de¤  sespoir. My voice will be the voice of those who suffer and have no voice. My voice, the freedom of those weakened in the dungeon of despair.

-Ce¤  saire, Aime¤   Fernand
  Cahier d'un retour au pays natal.

He loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
  Canterbury  Tales,'General Prologue', l.45^6.