“There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is. Of course I don't appreciate it. And you wouldn't, either.”

“You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.”

Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor

“Freedom is taking so much for granted, when you don't appreciate the small things that you have.”

Cameron Duncan (1986–2003) New Zealand filmmaker

“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.”

Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR

“It seems to me that the free man, i.e., the man freed in Christ, ought to take part in all movements that aim at human freedom. He obviously ought to oppose all dictatorship and oppression and all the fatalities which crush man. The Christian cannot bear it that others should be slaves. His great passion in the world ought to be a passion for the liberation of men.”

Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist

“No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

“There is no way to sort-of compartmentalise human liberty into "okay, I have social liberty and I have economic freedom." No, they're the same thing. You have— If you don't have economic freedom, you don't have personal liberty, and vice versa, if you don't have personal liberty, you don't have economic freedom, either.”

Glenn Jacobs (1967) American professional wrestler and actor

“I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

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

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull