A few thoughts about freedom................

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” 

-Søren Kierkegaard

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” 
-Nelson Mandela

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be” 
-James Baldwin

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” 
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
-Thomas Paine

“America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.” 
-Thomas L. Friedman

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” 
-Gloria Steinem

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” 
-Jim Morrison