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My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.