So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
Charles Horton Cooley

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Charles Horton Cooley

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
Will Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant

Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert Hubbard

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
Wanda Sykes

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Marilyn vos Savant

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Marilyn vos Savant

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
Gerry Adams

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Gerry Adams

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
Shel Silverstein

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp