Definition of Freedom

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Freedom

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

Privileges; franchises; immunities.

Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.

Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.

Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

Generosity; liberality.

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Freedom Quotations

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom Translations

freedom in Afrikaans is vryheid
freedom in Danish is frihed
freedom in Dutch is vrijdom, vlotheid, vrijheid
freedom in German is Ungebundenheit, Freiheit, Freiheit
freedom in Latin is libertas
freedom in Norwegian is frihet
freedom in Portuguese is liberdade
freedom in Spanish is libertad, libreria
freedom in Swedish is frihet

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