Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

-Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge)
  Speculum Mentis.

  Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

-Dryden,John
  Threnodia  Augustalis, stanza10.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
  Inaugural address, 20  Jan.

This embattled shore, portal of freedom, is forever hallowed by theideals, thevalorand thesacrifices ofour fellow countrymen.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
Inscription at US cemetery near St-Laurent. Quoted in the New York Times, 5  Jun1994.

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

History may be servitude, History may be freedom.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

Je suis ne¤   pour te conna|"tre Pour te nommer Liberte¤  . I was born to know you To give you your name: Freedom.

-EŁ  luard, Paul pseudonym of  Euge'  ne Grindel
  Poe¤  sie et ve¤  rite¤ , 'Liberte¤ ' .

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  The Conduct of Life,'Fate'.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

-Franzen,Jonathan
  The Weaker Vessel, epilogue.

The knowledge that you can have is inexhaustible, and what is inexhaustible is benevolent. The knowledge that you cannot have is of the riddles of birth and death, of our future destinyand the purposes of God. Here there is no knowledge, but illusions that restrict freedom and limit hope. Accept the mystery behind knowledge: It is not darkness but shadow.

-Frye, Northrop
   Address, Metropolitan United Church, Toronto,10  Apr, quoted by Alexandra  Johnston in Vic Report, spring1991.

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

-GeorgeVI
  Opening, as Duke ofYork, the first  Australian Parliament to assemble in Canberra, 9 May.

O Freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!

-George, Daniel pseudonym of  Daniel George Bunting
  The Perpetual Pessimist.

Le bonheur de l'homme n'est pas dans la liberte¤  , mais dans l'acceptation d'un devoir. Man'shappiness doesnot come from freedom but inthe acceptance of a task.

-Gide, Andre¤   Paul Guillaume
   Journal entry, 8 Feb. English actor and producer. A leading Shakespearean actor, he appeared  in  many  films,  notably  as  Cassius  in  Julius  Caesar (1952) and in Prospero's Books (1991).

There is a misunderstanding by marketers in our culture about what freedom of choice is. In the market, it is equated with multiplying choice. This is a misconception. If you have infinite choice, people are reduced to passivity.

-Gitlin,Todd
  In the NewYork Times,14 Feb.

England's foreign policy should always be inspired by the love of freedom. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom one lays the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  Speech, West Calder, 27 Nov.

I take these to be the seven great facts and doctrines concerning Godöhis richness; his double action, natural and supernatural; his perfect freedom; his delightfulness; his otherness; his adorableness and his prevenience.

-Hu«  gel, Friedrich von, Baron
The Life of Prayer (published1927).

But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

En skulde aldrig ha'sine bedste buxer pafi  , nafi   r en er ude og strider for frihed og sandhed. You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.

-Ibsen, HenrikJohan
  En folkefiende (An Enemy of  the People), act 5.

The bird, the beste, the fisch eke in the see, They lyve in fredome, euerich in his kynd, And I, a man, and lakkith libertee!

-James I
c.1435  The Kingis Quair, stanza 27.

Equal and exact justice to all men†freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selectedöthese principles form the bright constellation that has gone before us.

-Jefferson,Thomas
Inaugural address, 4 Mar.