Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted all else follows.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion dissent and debate.

When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

The worst enemy of life freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

Make no mistake in this campaign I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall ' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.