All the resources of a superpower cannot isolate a man whohearsthevoiceoffreedom; avoicethat Iheard from the very chamber of my soul.

-Sharansky, Natan Anatoly Borisovich
  Speech, NewYork,11 May, shortly after his release following nine years in a Soviet labour colony.

That sweet bondage which is freedom's self.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Queen Mab, canto 9.

My country,'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims'pride, From every mountain-side Let the freedom ring.

-Smith, Samuel Francis
  'America'.

This rortie wretched city Sair come down frae its auld hiechts öThe hauf o't smug, complacent, Lost til all pride of race or spirit, The tither wild and rouch as ever In its secret hairt But lost alsweill, the smeddum tane, The man o'independent mind has cap in hand the day öSits on its craggy spine And drees the wind and rain That nourished all its genius öWeary wi centuries This empty capital snorts like a great beast Caged in its sleep, dreaming of freedom.

-Smith, Sydney Goodsir
  Of Edinburgh.'Kynd Kittock's Land' (Kynd Kittock is a character in the poetry of the16c Scottish poetWilliam Dunbar.) rortie=splendid, smeddum=spirit, drees=endures.

Beware of anything that promises freedom or enlightenmentötraps for eager and clever foolsöa dog has a keener noseöevery creature in a cave can justify himself. Three-fourths of philosophyand literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

-Snyder, Gary Sherman
  Earth House Hold,'Japan FirstTimeAround, 24: X'.

We were obsessed by the feeling that this was the supreme cause of our time. The cause of poets and of writers.The cause of freedom. And that unlessthe cause of anti-Fascism was won, unless Fascism was defeated, we would be unable to exist as writers.

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  Speaking on the ITV seriesThe Spanish CivilWar, no.3, 'Battleground for idealists'.

Shouting isnot a substitute for thinking and reason isnot the subversion but the salvation of freedom.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  Lecture at Harvard,17 Mar.

Technology, while adding daily to our physical ease, throws dailyanother loop of fine wire around our souls. It contributes hugely to our mobility, which we must not confuse with freedom. The extensions of our senses, which we find so fascinating, are not adding to the discrimination of our minds, since we need increasingly to take the reading of a needle on a dial to discover whether we think something isgood or bad, or right or wrong.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  'My Faith in Democratic Capitalism', in Fortune, Oct.

Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  Putting FirstThings First.

A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'You ask me, why, though ill at ease', stanza 3, l.9^12.

En matie'  re de presse, il n'y a donc re¤  ellement pas de milieu entre la servitude et la licence. Pour recueillir les biens inestimables qu'assure la liberte¤   de la presse, il faut Tocqueville savoir se soumettre aux maux ine¤  vitables qu'elle fait na|"tre. As for the press, there is no middle way between servitude and extreme licence. In order to enjoy the invaluable benefits ensured by freedom of the press, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it engenders.

-Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de
^40  De la De¤  mocratie en Ame¤  rique (Democracy in America), vol.1, pt.2, ch.3.

Ce serait diminuer leur importance que de croire qu'ils ne servent qu'a'   garantir la liberte¤  ; ils maintiennent la civilisation. It would diminish the importance [of newspapers] to believe that they only serve to guarantee freedom; they maintain civilization.

-Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de
^40  De la De¤  mocratie en Ame¤  rique (Democracy in America), vol.2, pt.2, ch.6.

   Jimsaid it madehimall over tremblyand feverishtobe so close to freedom.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.16.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

-Walesa, Lech
  Nobel peace prize lecture, read on his behalf,11 Dec.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one ofthevital personal rights essentialtotheorderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

-Warren, Earl
  2 Jun. Unanimous ruling against aVirginian law forbidding intermarriage of blacks and whites.

The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in whichsuch a benefit ispossible.If, however, we proceed along the clear and obvious lines of our traditional behavior, and follow our traditional worship of progress and the fifth freedomöthe freedom to exploitöit is practically certain that we shall have to face a decade or more of ruin and despair.

-Wiener, Norbert
  The Human Use of Human Beings.

   Liberty isthemotherof virtue, and if women be, by their very constitution, slaves, and not allowed to breathe the sharp invigorating air of freedom, they must ever languish like exotics, and be reckoned beautiful flaws in nature.

-Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.2.

  Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published1807).

Freedom is only the distance between the hunter and his prey.

-Zhao, Zhenkai pen name Beo Dao
c.1989  'Answer', collected in Donald Finkel A Splintered Mirror (1991).