3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
3 December 2020 Karl Rahner How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every ‘should’ is a compulsion, and not every ‘like’ is a high morality and true freedom.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
3 December 2020 Jim DeMint Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator – life, liberty and freedom.
3 December 2020 Thornton Wilder The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.
3 December 2020 Corazon Aquino Freedom of expression – in particular, freedom of the press – guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity – and an obligation – to help them turn this desire into reality.
3 December 2020 Howard Nemerov The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn’t give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
3 December 2020 Leonard Peltier A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people’s rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
3 December 2020 David Cameron What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
3 December 2020 Madonna Ciccone I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
3 December 2020 Pericles Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
3 December 2020 Ferdinand Mount One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
3 December 2020 Richard Stallman Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us with politics’, respond those who don’t want to learn.
3 December 2020 Corliss Lamont I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver’s permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one’s car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.
3 December 2020 William Lyon Mackenzie King If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
3 December 2020 William Lloyd Garrison Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
3 December 2020 Dan Rather A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
3 December 2020 Kate Adie I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Jinnah That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg I don’t watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I’m reading at the moment ‘Freedom,’ by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I’m loving it.
3 December 2020 Peter Singer Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he’s a universalist.
3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson I have the freedom to do what I want… bright people to talk to every day.
