Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.
Until you have lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Today hundreds of millions dwell in freedom from the Baltic to the Adriatic from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU alongside Nato who made that happen.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
A nice easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached which gives me a freedom I never had before.
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because like democracy and freedom many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
God tolerates even our stammering and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as indeed without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
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.
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress behavior career and sexual orientation.
The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation.
Even before I knew I was gay I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human social economic political and religious relationship.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought they demand freedom of speech.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
A free press can of course be good or bad but most certainly without freedom the press will never be anything but bad.