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Definition: Freedom |
FreedomNoun1. The condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints. 2. Immunity from an obligation or duty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "freedom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Satire | FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either. Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell. And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell. For all to whom the power's given To sway or to compel, Among themselves apportion Heaven And give her Hell. Blary O'Gary. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Freedom The law of Moses pointed out the cases in which the servants of the Hebrews were to receive their freedom (Ex. 21:2-4, 7, 8; Lev. 25:39-42, 47-55; Deut. 15:12-18). Under the Roman law the "freeman" (ingenuus) was one born free; the "freedman" (libertinus) was a manumitted slave, and had not equal rights with the freeman (Acts 22:28; comp. Acts 16:37-39; 21:39; 22:25; 25:11, 12). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Free will is the philosophical doctrine that our choices are, ultimately, "up to us". Consequently, an unfree action must be somehow "up to" something else. The phrase "up to us" is deliberately vague, and, just like free will itself, admits of a variety of interpretations. We can ask several logically independent questions about free will.
Determinism vs. indeterminism
Determinism holds that each state of affairs is necessitated (determined) by all the states of affairs that came before it. In other words, what happens next is completely fixed by what came before. Indeterminism holds that some states of affairs contain elements that were not necessitated by the previous states of affairs. In other words, what happens next is not completely fixed by what came before. The idea of determinism is sometimes illustrated by the story of Laplace's demon, who knows all the facts about the past and present and all the natural laws that govern our world, and uses this knowledge to see the future, down to every detail.
Many philosophers hold that determinism is at odds with free will. After all, if everything that happens is completely determined by the past, how can our choices be free? Wouldn't our choices just be one more outcome determined by the past? According to determinism, we can't just decide to disobey the immutable laws that govern the universe. So if determinism were true, then we would be trapped by the past and free will would be an illusion. This position is usually called "incompatibilism". "Hard determinists", such as d'Holbach, are those incompatibilists who reject free will. "Libertarians", such as van Inwagen, are those incompatiblists who accept free will and deny determinism (this kind of libertarianism should not be confused with the political position of the same name).
Other philosophers hold that determinism is consistent with free will. These "compatibilists", such as Hobbes, often point to clearcut cases of someone's free will being denied -- rape, murder, theft, and so on. The key to these cases is not that the past is determining the future, but that the aggressor is overriding the victim's desires and preferences about his or her own actions. The aggressor is coercing the victim, which is what nullifies free will. Determinism has nothing to do with it. It doesn't matter if our choices are determined by the past, what matters is that our choices are the results of our own desires and preferences, and are not overridden by some external force. This position is typical of compatibilism.
Moral responsibility
We tend to hold people responsible for their actions. And many believe that one must possess free will in order to be morally responsible. So another important issue is whether we are morally responsible, and in what sense.
Incompatibilists tend to think that determinism is at odds with moral responsibility. After all, how can you hold someone responsible for an action that was bound to happen since the first instant of the universe? Hard determinists say "So much the worse for moral responsibility!" and junk the concept -- Clarence Darrow famously used this argument to defend the murderers Leopold and Loeb -- while libertarians say "So much the worse for determinism!" This issue appears to be the heart of the dispute between hard determinists and compatibilists; hard determinists are forced to accept that we often have "free will" in the compatibilist sense, but they deny that this sense of free will truly matters -- that it can ground moral responsibility. Just because an agent's choices are uncoerced doesn't change the fact that determinism robs the agent of responsibility.
Compatibilists often argue that, on the contrary, determinism is a prerequisite for moral responsibility -- you can't hold someone responsible unless his actions were determined by something (this argument can be traced to Hume). After all, if indeterminism is true, then those events that are not determined are random. How can you blame or praise someone for performing an action that just spontaneously popped into his nervous system? Instead, they argue, you need to show how the action stemmed from the person's desires and preferences -- the person's character -- before you start holding the person morally responsible. Libertarians sometimes reply that undetermined actions aren't random at all, and that they result from a substantive will whose decisions are undetermined. This move is widely considered unsatisfactory, for it just pushes the problem back a step, and further, it involves some very mysterious metaphysics.
The could-have-done-otherwise principle
Many claim that, in order for an choice to be free in any sense that matters, it must be true that the agent could have done otherwise. They take this principle -- van Inwagen calls it the "principle of alternate possibilities" -- to be a necessary condition for freedom. For instance, if a scientist puts a machine in Bob's brain that makes him kill the President, his action was not free, for Bob couldn't have done otherwise. Incompatibilists often appeal to this principle to show that determinism cannot be reconciled with free will. "If a decision is completely determined by the past," they ask, "how could the agent have decided to do something else?" Compatibilists often reply that what's important is not simply that the agent could have done otherwise, but that the agent could have done otherwise if he or she had wanted to. Moreover, some compatibilists, such as Frankfurt or Dennett, argue that there are clear cases where the agent couldn't have done otherwise, but that the agent's choice was still free: what if Bob really wanted to kill the President and the machine in Bob's brain would only kick in if Bob lost his nerve? If Bob went through with it on his own, surely the act would be free. Or so it is claimed. The problem with this idea is that what Bob "wanted" was determined -- to the extent that it is not random -- before Bob was conceived. Once again, it merely passes the buck to another level. The more complicated and contrived the sense of possibility, the more the principle departs from common-sense notions of freedom.
The science of free will
Throughout the history of science, attempts have been made to answer the question of free will using scientific principles. Early scientific thought often pictured the universe as a highly deterministic place, and some assumed that it was simply a matter of gathering sufficient information to be able to predict future events with perfect accuracy. More recently, developments such as quantum mechanics and chaos theory have introduced greater uncertainty and complexity into the issue.
Like physicists, biologists have also frequently addressed the question of free will. One of the greatest and oldest debates of biology is that of "nature versus nurture". How important are genetics and biology in human behavior compared to culture and environment? Genetic studies have identified many specific genetic factors that affect the personality of the individual, from obvious cases such as Down's syndrome to more subtle effects such as a statistical predisposition towards schizophrenia.
It has also become possible to study the living brain and researchers can now watch the decision-making "machinery" involved in what is commonly referred to as free will. A seminal experiment in this field was conducted by Benjamin Libet in the 1980s, wherein he asked subjects to choose a random moment to flick their wrist while he watched the associated activity in their brains. Libet found that the brain activity leading up to the subject flicking their wrist began approximately one-third of a second before the subject consciously decided to move, suggesting that the decision was actually first being made on a subconscious level and only afterward being translated into a "conscious decision." A related experiment performed later by Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone involved asking subjects to choose at random which of their hands to move. He found that by stimulating different hemispheres of the brain using magnetic fields it was possible to strongly influence which hand the subject picked. Normally right-handed people would choose to move their right hand 60% of the time, for example, but when the right hemisphere was stimulated they would instead choose their left hand 80% of the time (recall that the right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for the left side of the body, and the left hemisphere for the right). Despite the external influence on their decision-making, the subjects continued to report that they believed their choice of hand had been made freely.
Other issues
The theological doctrine of divine foreknowledge is often alleged to be in conflict with human freedom. After all, if God knows exactly what will happen, right down to every choice you make, how can your choices be free? God's already-true or timelessly-true knowledge about your choices seems to constrain your freedom. This problem is related to the Aristotelian problem of the sea-battle: tomorrow there will or will not be a sea-battle. If there will be one, then it was true yesterday that there would be one. Then it would be necessary that the sea battle will occur. If there won't be one, then by similar reasoning, it is necessary that it won't occur. This means that the future, whatever it is, is completely fixed by past truths -- true propositions about the future. And if what will be, will be, why bother trying? Such fatalistic arguments -- arguments that only the actual world is possible -- are usually rife with modal mistakes. A good introduction to the problems of modality is to try to debunk such arguments by isolating their specious entailments.
Some philosophers believe that free will is equivalent to having a soul, and thus that (at least some) animals don't have free will.
See also
- Free will and the problem of evil
- Consciousness
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Randomness
- Block time
- Newcomb's paradox
- Elbow Room a book by Daniel Dennett
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Freedom has various uses:
See also: free, free software, liberty, Human rights
- Freedom the political right, or legal capacity, of self-determination, as an expression of the individual will
- Freedom of the will as a human capacity considered philosophically
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of the press
- Freedom in the context of software with "no restrictions on use" for any purpose
- Freedom, a British Anarchist newspaper
- Freedom a town in New York
- Freedom, a US Space station incorporated into the International Space Station in November 1993
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Freedom is an album by Yothu Yindi that was released in 1993 under the Mushroom Records label.
(Put history, trivia, facts, lyrical and musical themes here)
Track listing:
Personnel:
- "Timeless Land" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Witiyana Marika, Stuart Kellaway, D. Bridie)
- "World of Innocence" (M. Yunupingu, Kellaway, I. Faith)
- "Freedom" (M. Yunupingu)
- "Baywara" (M. Yunupingu, Kellaway)
- "Ngerrk" (Traditional song, arranged by Galarrwuy Yunupingu)
- "Back to Culture" (M. Yunupingu, Kellaway, Faith)
- "World Turning" (M. Yunupingu, W. Marika)
- "Mabo" (M. Yunupingu, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Kellaway, Gurrumul Yunupingu)
- "Milika" (Traditional song, arranged by W. Marika)
- "Danggultji" (Traditional song, arranged by W. Marika, B. Marika)
- "Gunitjpirr Man" (M. Yunupingu)
- "Yolngu Boy" (M. Yunupingu)
- "Dots on the Shells" (M. Yunupingu, Neil Finn)
- "Our Generation" (M. Yunupingu, Kellaway, A. Farris)
- "Gany'tjurr" (Traditional song, arranged by Galarrwuy Yunupingu)
- "Gapu" (Tidal Mix) (Traditional song, arranged by Galarrwuy Yunupingu)
External links:
- Mandawuy Yunupingu: Vocals, Guitar
- Witiyana Marika: Vocals, Clapsticks, Dance
- Makuma Yunupingu: Didgeridoo, Vocals, Clapsticks
- Stuart Kellaway: Bass Guitar
- Mangatjay Yunupingu: Dance
- Banula Marika: Vocals, Dance
- Bunimbirr Marika: Didgeridoo
- Cal Williams: Guitar
- Natalie Gillespie: Vocals
- Galarrwuy Yunupingu: Vocals, Clapsticks
- Milkayngu Mununggurr: Didgeridoo
- Gurrumul Yunupingu: Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
- Jodie Cockatoo: Vocals
- Bill Laswell: Bass
- Nicky Skopelitis: 6 & 12 String Guitar
- Bernie Worrell: Organ
- Terepai Richmond: Drums
- Daniel Watson: Percussion
- Allen Murphy: Drums
- Andrew Belletty: Drums
- Yothu Yindi
- Freedom
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Freedom is the right, or the capacity, of self-determination, as an expression of the individual will.
Traditionally philosophers have distinguished two senses of the word "freedom". The most common use is "negative" and is defined as the absence of constraint. Thus for Hobbes, one is free when the law is silent on a subject. But "freedom" is also used in another "positive" sense, where freedom is defined as the ability to transcend the social and cultural restraints which limit the potential of the individual for self-actualization. This latter sense is common to the romantic and individualistic philosophy of 19th century Germany.
Another common distinction made between kinds of freedom is the difference between "freedom from" social and political ills (which is really more accurately described as safety or security), and "freedom to" do what one wants (for which the term "liberty" is more precise).
Political freedom is usually connected to thoughts of human rights and is often defined in terms of a lack of excessive government interference in peoples' day-to-day lives.
In most democratic societies, key freedoms legally established by the government include:
Many nations have specific chapters of their constitutions which codify these freedoms in a bill of rights.
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of religon (or belief)
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of movement (or travel)
- Freedom from discrimination
The concept of what constitutes true "freedom" is often disputed by different groups on the political spectrum. For example, while capitalist societies would place a high value on freedom from government interference in the economy, Marxists, would criticize this kind of thought as placing too much influence on the needs of the idividual, while ignoring the goal of complete social equalitiy.
Enivornmentalists such as the Greens often argue that political freedoms should include some social constraint on use of ecosystems. There is no such thing, for instance, as "freedom to pollute" or "freedom to deforest" given the downstream consequences. The popularity of SUVs, golf and urban sprawl show that ideals of freedom and ecological conservation can clash.
This leads at times to serious confrontations, e.g. the Earth Liberation Front's arson of homes enroaching on the desert, and clashes of values reflected in advertising campaigns, e.g. that of PETA regarding fur.
In jurisprudence, freedom is the right of autonomously determining one's own actions; generally it is granted in those fields in which the subject has no obligations to fulfil or laws to obey, according to the interpretation that the hypothetical natural unlimited freedom is limited by the law for some matters.
See also
free, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and libertySource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom (political)."
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Freedom (ISSN 0016 0504) is a London-based anarchist newspaper published fortnightly by Freedom Press.The paper started in 1886 by volunteers including Peter Kropotkin and Charlotte Wilson and continues to this day as an unpaid project. Originally, the subtitle was "A Journal of Anarchist Socialism", but over the years this has changed to simply "anarchist fortnightly".
The newspaper's mission statement is stated in every issue, on page 2, and summarises the writers' view of anarchism:
The paper features news from peace and labour movements and events, as well as listing planned events and protests on the back page. Staying true to Kropotkin's principle of mutual aid, the paper regularly features reviews of other anarchist and libertarian publications, such as Total Liberty and Direct Action as well as other local and international newsletters and journals.
- Anarchists work towards a society of mutual aid and voluntary co-operation. We reject all government and economic repression. This newspaper, published continuously since 1936, exists to explain anarchism more widely and show that only in an anarchist society can human freedom thrive.
It regularly features Donald Rooum's Wildcat cartoon strip as well as Rooum's articles, most recently on genetically modified foods.
Cover of Freedom, dated 13th September 2003, showing the new cover design.
Cover of Freedom dated 16th November 2002 (old design)Along with a number of gradual changes in the content and structure of the paper and organisational changes at Freedom Press, Freedom got a re-design in September 2003, which can be seen to the right.
See also
- The Raven
External links
- Freedom Press website
- Yahoo! group, where articles are discussed
- Old issues of Freedom, preserved at the Anarchist Archives. Includes the first ever issue.
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The Freedom Bowl was an annual post-season college American football bowl game played at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California, from 1984 to 1994. The games were played in December.Results:
- 1984 Iowa 55, Texas 17
- 1985 Washington 20, Colorado 17
- 1986 UCLA 31, Brigham Young 10
- 1987 Arizona State 33, Air Force 28
- 1988 Brigham Young 20, Colorado 17
- 1989 Washington 34, Florida 7
- 1990 Colorado St. 32, Oregon 31
- 1991 Tulsa 28, San Diego State 17
- 1992 Fresno State 24, Southern California 7
- 1993 Southern California 28, Utah 21
- 1994 Utah 16, Arizona 13
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Freedom is a town located in Santa Cruz County, California. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 6,000.Geography
Freedom is located at 36°56'26" North, 121°47'22" West (36.940452, -121.789376)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.5 km² (1.3 mi²). 3.5 km² (1.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 6,000 people, 1,596 households, and 1,182 families residing in the town. The population density is 1,728.8/km² (4,480.0/mi²). There are 1,619 housing units at an average density of 466.5/km² (1,208.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 44.42% White, 0.48% African American, 1.87% Native American, 3.35% Asian, 0.22% Pacific Islander, 43.72% from other races, and 5.95% from two or more races. 69.42% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,596 households out of which 41.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.8% are married couples living together, 12.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.9% are non-families. 21.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.75 and the average family size is 4.23. In the town the population is spread out with 30.8% under the age of 18, 11.5% from 18 to 24, 29.8% from 25 to 44, 17.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 30 years. For every 100 females there are 102.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 102.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $40,600, and the median income for a family is $43,056. Males have a median income of $27,083 versus $23,056 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,690. 17.4% of the population and 12.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 22.3% are under the age of 18 and 8.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, California."
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Freedom is a town located in Forest County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 376.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 93.5 km² (36.1 mi²). 88.2 km² (34.1 mi²) of it is land and 5.3 km² (2.0 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 5.62% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 376 people, 158 households, and 115 families residing in the town. The population density is 4.3/km² (11.0/mi²). There are 435 housing units at an average density of 4.9/km² (12.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.73% White, 0.00% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 1.06% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 158 households out of which 20.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.5% are married couples living together, 1.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.6% are non-families. 21.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.38 and the average family size is 2.78. In the town the population is spread out with 20.5% under the age of 18, 4.3% from 18 to 24, 21.0% from 25 to 44, 34.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 48 years. For every 100 females there are 106.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 118.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $35,313, and the median income for a family is $38,438. Males have a median income of $26,500 versus $21,000 for females. The per capita income for the town is $17,280. 5.6% of the population and 3.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 9.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, Forest County, Wisconsin."
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Freedom is a town located in Waldo County, Maine. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 645.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 57.6 km² (22.2 mi²). 55.7 km² (21.5 mi²) of it is land and 1.8 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 3.19% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 645 people, 259 households, and 182 families residing in the town. The population density is 11.6/km² (30.0/mi²). There are 321 housing units at an average density of 5.8/km² (14.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.59% White, 0.31% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 2.95% from two or more races. 2.17% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 259 households out of which 30.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.1% are married couples living together, 7.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.7% are non-families. 22.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.49 and the average family size is 2.84. In the town the population is spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 30.9% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 112.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 106.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $33,125, and the median income for a family is $35,750. Males have a median income of $33,750 versus $24,688 for females. The per capita income for the town is $15,492. 15.4% of the population and 11.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 17.5% are under the age of 18 and 10.4% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, Maine."
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Freedom is a town located in Carroll County, New Hampshire. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,303.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 98.3 km² (38.0 mi²). 89.7 km² (34.7 mi²) of it is land and 8.6 km² (3.3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 8.75% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,303 people, 602 households, and 402 families residing in the town. The population density is 14.5/km² (37.6/mi²). There are 1,406 housing units at an average density of 15.7/km² (40.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.16% White, 0.15% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.61% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 602 households out of which 19.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.1% are married couples living together, 4.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.2% are non-families. 28.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.15 and the average family size is 2.60. In the town the population is spread out with 16.8% under the age of 18, 3.1% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 32.1% from 45 to 64, and 24.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 49 years. For every 100 females there are 95.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $40,188, and the median income for a family is $49,167. Males have a median income of $32,150 versus $26,000 for females. The per capita income for the town is $23,036. 6.8% of the population and 4.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.7% are under the age of 18 and 8.1% are 65 or older. This American Life produced a program related to the history of Freedom, titled "The House at Loon Lake" (November 16, 2001
Episode 199). A house in Freedom owned by the Nason family, which was abandoned in the thirties, is found 50 years later by two boys exploring the lake. They spend years trying to figure out the history of the house and why it was abandoned. You can listen to the hour long show by clicking on the link above and finding the show archive.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, New Hampshire."
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Freedom is a town located in Cattaraugus County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,493.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 105.1 km² (40.6 mi²). 104.4 km² (40.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.64% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,493 people, 871 households, and 680 families residing in the town. The population density is 23.9/km² (61.8/mi²). There are 1,033 housing units at an average density of 9.9/km² (25.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.88% White, 0.16% African American, 0.08% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.08% from other races, and 0.72% from two or more races. 0.76% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 871 households out of which 39.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.5% are married couples living together, 7.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 21.9% are non-families. 16.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.86 and the average family size is 3.20. In the town the population is spread out with 29.5% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 9.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 103.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 103.9 males. The median income for a household in the town is $34,654, and the median income for a family is $36,061. Males have a median income of $27,380 versus $22,188 for females. The per capita income for the town is $14,145. 11.3% of the population and 12.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 10.3% are under the age of 18 and 18.5% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, New York."
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Freedom is a town located in Woods County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 271.Geography
Freedom is located at 36°46'9" North, 99°6'48" West (36.769179, -99.113415)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 271 people, 108 households, and 77 families residing in the town. The population density is 299.0/km² (776.7/mi²). There are 129 housing units at an average density of 142.3/km² (369.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 95.94% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.74% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 2.21% from other races, and 1.11% from two or more races. 2.58% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 108 households out of which 35.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.3% are married couples living together, 10.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.8% are non-families. 25.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.51 and the average family size is 2.97. In the town the population is spread out with 29.2% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 81.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $36,250, and the median income for a family is $38,500. Males have a median income of $31,458 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the town is $20,255. 9.3% of the population and 5.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 6.8% are under the age of 18 and 11.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, Oklahoma."
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Freedom is a town located in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5,241.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 92.6 km² (35.8 mi²). 92.6 km² (35.8 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 5,241 people, 1,833 households, and 1,451 families residing in the town. The population density is 56.6/km² (146.6/mi²). There are 1,859 housing units at an average density of 20.1/km² (52.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.68% White, 0.00% African American, 0.71% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.19% from other races, and 0.29% from two or more races. 0.80% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,833 households out of which 43.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.0% are married couples living together, 5.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 20.8% are non-families. 15.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.86 and the average family size is 3.23. In the town the population is spread out with 30.0% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 34.5% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 7.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 33 years. For every 100 females there are 104.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 104.5 males. The median income for a household in the town is $57,868, and the median income for a family is $60,587. Males have a median income of $37,423 versus $26,727 for females. The per capita income for the town is $22,462. 3.3% of the population and 1.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 5.3% are under the age of 18 and 1.3% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, Outagamie County, Wisconsin."
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Freedom is a borough located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 1,763.Geography
Freedom is located at 40°41'4" North, 80°15'6" West (40.684316, -80.251667)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²). 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 18.06% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,763 people, 687 households, and 469 families residing in the borough. The population density is 1,153.7/km² (2,984.4/mi²). There are 731 housing units at an average density of 478.4/km² (1,237.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 92.80% White, 5.16% African American, 0.06% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.23% from other races, and 1.53% from two or more races. 0.74% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 687 households out of which 32.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.0% are married couples living together, 18.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 31.6% are non-families. 26.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.56 and the average family size is 3.09. In the borough the population is spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 93.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 85.9 males. The median income for a household in the borough is $30,741, and the median income for a family is $38,000. Males have a median income of $30,303 versus $23,438 for females. The per capita income for the borough is $16,261. 14.5% of the population and 12.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 21.8% are under the age of 18 and 8.6% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, Pennsylvania."
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Freedom is a town located in Sauk County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 416.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 89.9 km² (34.7 mi²). 89.6 km² (34.6 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.35% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 416 people, 158 households, and 121 families residing in the town. The population density is 4.6/km² (12.0/mi²). There are 182 housing units at an average density of 2.0/km² (5.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.84% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 1.20% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.24% from other races, and 0.72% from two or more races. 0.24% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 158 households out of which 33.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.5% are married couples living together, 1.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.8% are non-families. 19.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.63 and the average family size is 3.05. In the town the population is spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 4.8% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 32.9% from 45 to 64, and 7.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 108.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 116.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $55,000, and the median income for a family is $57,500. Males have a median income of $31,875 versus $22,778 for females. The per capita income for the town is $23,332. 2.5% of the population and 2.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 2.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, Sauk County, Wisconsin."
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Freedom is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin:
*Freedom, Forest County, Wisconsin
*Freedom, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
*Freedom, Sauk County, WisconsinSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Freedom, Wisconsin."
Synonym: FreedomSynonym: exemption (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Noun: nonadhesion; immiscibility; incoherence; looseness; Adjective: laxity; relaxation; loosening; Verb: freedom; disjunction; rope of sand. |
Exemption | Noun: exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge; exculpation. Verb: be exempt; Adjective: |
Freedom | Take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a freedom; take leave, take French leave. |
Noun: freedom, liberty, independence; license; (permission); facility. | |
Make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise, affranchise. | |
Laxity | Noun: laxity; laxness, looseness, slackness; toleration; (lenity); freedom. |
Will | Noun: will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum arbitrium; will and pleasure, free will; freedom; discretion; option; (choice); voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness; originality. |
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Screenplays | Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom (Starship Troopers; writing credit: Edward Neumeier. Based on the novel by Robert A. Heinlein.) Then, a toast: May their days be long and full of happiness; may their children be many and full of health; and may they live in peace and freedom. (The Quiet Man; writing credit: Frank S. Nugent; Maurice Walsh) Personally, I think, uh they don't really want to be involved in this war. You know, I mean they sort of took away our freedom and gave it to the, to the gookers, you know (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) It's freedom, baby, yeah (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers) | |
Lyrics | `Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom (Philadelphia Freedom; performing artist: Elton John) SHINE SWEET FREEDOM (SWEET FREEDOM; performing artist: Michael McDonald) There is freedom within, there is freedom without (Don't Dream It's Over; performing artist: Crowded House) I thank you for the freedom (Leader Of The Band; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) Recompense is my way to freedom now (Between You And Me; performing artist: DC Talk) | |
Clever | Freedom is doing what you know is right without fear. (references; author: unknown) Those who admire the freedom of birds have never built a nest. (references; author: unknown) College is that bright interlude of freedom a young man has between subjection to his mother and submission to his wife. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Seventh Step to Freedom (1973) Freedom Freedom (1971) Sexual Freedom in Brooklyn (1971) Freedom (1970) Roads to Freedom (1970) | |
Song Titles | Freedom (performing artist: George Michael) Sweet Freedom (performing artist: Michael McDonald) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Space Station Freedom Centrifuge Facility Mockup. Credit: NASA. |  | Launch of Freedom 7. Credit: NASA. |
 | Freedom 7 and Shepard In flight. Credit: NASA. |  | NURP dive bell used in the 1980s-- scientists prefer the freedom.of scuba. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Whimsical view of the freedom and beauty of the sea. In: "The Voyage of H. M. S. CHALLENGER A Summary....", Part I, p. xxxv. Library Call Number Q115.C4 1880 summary pt. 1. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Mass at a deployed location supporting Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 3, 2002. |
 | Defense of Freedom Medal. |  | "Quit smoking... you're breathing for two" : To get a copy of "Freedom From Smoking for You and Your Baby," contact your local American Lung Association. / American Lung Association. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Freedom from smoking : Wanting to quit / American Lung Association. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Pilot of the Confederate Army armed transport Planter, who ran his ship out of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in the early morning of 13 May 1862 and delivered her to Federal forces. The Planter carried several other black men, women and children to freedom in this daring escape. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Riga - Freedom Monument" by Paul Sloane Commentary: "The base of the Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia." | "Freedom" by Finn Erik Commentary: "Fly away..." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Peguy | Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | Freedom is from within. |
Henry Ward Beecher | True obedience is true freedom. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Freedom exists only with power. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Only law can give us freedom. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | The freedom of poetic license. |
| Freedom is participation in power. | |
Soren Kierkegaard | Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
Walt Whitman | Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III, before the quarrel arose between us and our barons: and this we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs forever. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. (Abraham Lincoln) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | It shall take all steps which it thinks proper to ensure the freedom, fairness, and secrecy of the vote. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Here are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in every cottage home. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but together what we can do for the freedom of man. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It will be taking out my freedom. |
Contact | Carl Sagan | If we like them, they're freedom fighters, she thought |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Thus the associations for (r)the Freedom of the Press, for (r)Individual Freedom, for (r)the Instruction of the People, against Direct Taxes |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | To discover the mode of life or of art whereby your spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Well, try to get some freedom to do. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Let me deal so candidly with the reader as to confess that there was yet a much stronger motive for the freedom I took in my representation of things |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You, however, might be feeling a new sense of freedom and energy. (references) | |
Complete recovery including freedom from seizures and normal development is very unusual. (references) | ||
When the physician has determined that clinical indications justify the administration of ECT, the law requires, and medical ethics demand, that the patient's freedom to accept or refuse the treatment be fully honored. (references) | ||
Business | Contracts are concluded under the freedom of contract principle. (references) | |
They have freedom to sign a purchase contract directly with one supplier. (references) | ||
Average citizens go about their daily lives with more personal freedom than ever before. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | The city of Rio de Janeiro, in cooperation with NGO's, has provided 41 shelters and group homes (run by the NGO's) for up to 2,501 homeless children and adolescents, but some children appear to prefer the freedom and drugs that street life offers. (references) |
Civil Liberties | East Timor | UNTAET respects academic freedom. (references) |
Korea | Genuine religious freedom does not exist. (references) | |
Discrimination | Monaco | It differentiates between rights that are accorded to nationals (including preference in employment, free education, and assistance to the ill or unemployed) and those accorded to all residents, for example, freedom of religion and inviolability of the home. (references) |
Economic History | Equatorial Guinea | Religious freedom is tolerated. (references) |
Sierra Leone | Civil rights and religious freedom are respected. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iran | It serves as the principal vehicle of the State to restrict freedom and reform in the society. (references) |
Malaysia | These conditions limited their rights to freedom of speech, association, and travel outside the country. (references) | |
Lithuania | These prisoner-workers live separately from other inmates and enjoy freedom of movement on the prison grounds. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | In June National Human Rights Commissioner Anuar Zainal Abidin identified violations of rights of indigenous people resulting from construction of the Bakun Dam in Sarawak, including the lack of freedom to choose a location for resettlement and the amount of compensation. (references) |
Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Despite the constitutional provisions for religious freedom, a degree of discrimination against minorities occurs in virtually all parts of the country. (references) |
Indonesia | Despite constitutional and legal provisions regarding freedom of religion, there are some restrictions on certain types of religious activity and on unrecognized religions. (references) | |
Political Economy | Belarus | The regime restricted freedom of movement. (references) |
Mauritius | In some cases, police restricted freedom of assembly. (references) | |
Georgia | Government officials infringed upon freedom of religion. (references) | |
Political Rights | Singapore | This threat heightened concerns among some observers about voters' genuine freedom to change their government. (references) |
East Timor | UNTAET advocates the freedom of political parties and adheres to the U.N. International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The two most influential parties, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (the principal component party of the governing PA coalition) and the UNP, generally draw their support from the majority Sinhalese community. (references) | |
Trade | Uk | This continued freedom is supported by importers, and also by British exporters of products destined for the U.S. market. (references) |
Guatemala | Existing banking regulations and practices allow banks and other financial institutions freedom in valuing assets and evaluating the performance and quality of those assets. (references) | |
Georgia | On April 16, 1999, Georgia acceded to the Convention and Statute on Freedom of Transit of April 1921, the Convention on Transit Trade of Land-Locked States (New York, July 1965), and the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Control of Goods (Geneva 1982). (references) | |
Travel | Hong Kong | All residents are equal under the law, enjoy freedom of movement, access to public education, and basic civil freedoms. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | The following Equato-Guinean national holidays are scheduled on fixed calendar days: January 1 (New Year's Day), May 1 (Labor Day), May 25 (African Freedom Day), June 5 (President's Birthday), August 3 (Armed Forces Day), October 2 (Independence Day), December 8 (Immaculate Conception Day) and December 25 (Christmas Day). (references) | |
Women | Togo | A husband legally may restrict his wife's freedom to work or control her earnings. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nigeria | The ILO cited a number of restrictions on freedom of association. (references) |
Colombia | The Labor Code calls for fines to be levied for restricting freedom of association. (references) | |
Pakistan | During 2000 Saga Sports became the first industry in Sialkot to permit freedom of association. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues. John Elmer Pettibone Cajee (I write of him with little glee) Was just as bad as he could be. 'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon! The sun has never looked upon So bad a man as Neighbor John." A sinner through and through, he had This added fault: it made him mad To know another man was bad. In such a case he thought it right To rise at any hour of night And quench that wicked person's light. Despite the town's entreaties, he Would hale him to the nearest tree And leave him swinging wide and free. Or sometimes, if the humor came, A luckless wight's reluctant frame Was given to the cheerful flame. While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town. "How sad," his neighbors said, "that he So scornful of the law should be -- An anar c, h, i, s, t." (That is the way that they preferred To utter the abhorrent word, So strong the aversion that it stirred.) "Resolved," they said, continuing, "That Badman John must cease this thing Of having his unlawful fling. "Now, by these sacred relics" -- here Each man had out a souvenir Got at a lynching yesteryear -- "By these we swear he shall forsake His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache By sins of rope and torch and stake. "We'll tie his red right hand until He'll have small freedom to fulfil The mandates of his lawless will." So, in convention then and there, They named him Sheriff. The affair Was opened, it is said, with prayer. J. Milton Sloluck |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Our Founding Fathers were supreme champions of freedom of speech. |
Larry Elder | Well, it's a book that says the founding fathers were people who believed that Americans should be trusted with their own money and their own freedom, and that we have drastically drifted away from that. |
Lynne Cheney | That we are so uniquely blessed to live in freedom as we do. And that if you don't understand how we got to be this way, how we got to be a free and independent country, you first of all don't understand what a privilege it is. |
Rush Limbaugh | Freedom didn't work on the first day. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Under the eternal urge of freedom we became an independent Nation. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Steadfast in our faith in the Almighty, we will advance toward a world where man's freedom is secure. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Likewise, we shall count upon them to assume, within the limits of their resources, their full and just burdens in the common defense of freedom. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Kennedy spoke of the burden and glory that is freedom. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Do the hard work of freedom. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We all cherish family and faith, freedom and responsibility. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | If our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be led. |
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| "Freedom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Freedom" is used about 6,043 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.88% | 6,036 | 1,622 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.1% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,043 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Freedom Group Limited | USA | Freedom Golf Corp. New |
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1. Freedom, CA (CDP, FIPS 25576) 2. Freedom, IN 3. Freedom, ME 4. Freedom, NH 5. Freedom, NY 6. Freedom, OK (town, FIPS 27850) 7. Freedom, PA (borough, FIPS 27712) 8. Freedom, WY |
Expressions using "freedom": academic freedom ♦ attack on freedom of faith and freedom of worship ♦ axis of freedom ♦ channel degrees of freedom ♦ dawn of freedom ♦ degree of freedom ♦ degrees of freedom ♦ deprivation of freedom ♦ deprived of freedom ♦ East Freedom ♦ economic freedom ♦ eight freedom ♦ entire freedom ♦ exchange freedom ♦ fighter for freedom ♦ fourth freedom ♦ freedom fighter ♦ freedom fighters ♦ Freedom fine ♦ freedom from care ♦ freedom from cruel and unusual punishment ♦ freedom from discrimination ♦ freedom from double jeopardy ♦ freedom from involuntary servitude ♦ freedom from obligation ♦ freedom from prejudice ♦ freedom from search and seizure ♦ freedom hand ♦ freedom of action ♦ freedom of assembly ♦ freedom of association ♦ freedom of choice ♦ freedom of opinion ♦ freedom of press ♦ freedom of religion ♦ freedom of speech ♦ freedom of testation ♦ Freedom of the city ♦ freedom of the press ♦ freedom of the seas ♦ freedom of the town ♦ freedom of thought ♦ freedom of trade ♦ freedom of worship ♦ freedom plus ♦ freedom to bear arms ♦ full freedom ♦ gimbal freedom ♦ give smb. more freedom of movement ♦ give smb. the freedom of the city ♦ grant freedom ♦ individual freedom ♦ league for Programming Freedom ♦ new freedom ♦ North Freedom ♦ Patient Freedom of Choice Laws ♦ Presidential Medal of Freedom ♦ religious freedom ♦ restriction of freedom ♦ seventh freedom ♦ sixth freedom ♦ testamentary freedom. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "freedom": freedom-fighter, freedom-fighters, freedom-fighting, freedom-loving, freedom-of-speech, freedom-the, freedom-to-roam. | |
Ending with "freedom": degrees-of-freedom, interest-freedom, pro-freedom, quasi-freedom, sea-freedom, value-freedom. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
freedom | 1,840 | washington freedom | 134 |
operation iraqi freedom | 967 | freedom ship | 132 |
freedom force | 796 | cheat force freedom | 131 |
iraqi freedom | 516 | freedom paradise | 126 |
freedom of information act | 497 | canadian charter of right freedom | 123 |
financial freedom | 421 | freedom credit union | 123 |
freedom force skin | 418 | circle freedom | 123 |
freedom of speech | 362 | acres freedom | 122 |
freedom scooter | 337 | ford freedom | 122 |
freedom festival | 270 | freedom fest | 111 |
mortgage freedom | 233 | freedom simple | 107 |
freedom hall | 196 | amphitheater freedom hill | 100 |
festival freedom international | 194 | force freedom meshes | 98 |
operation enduring freedom | 175 | firework freedom | 98 |
freedom of information | 168 | detroit festival freedom | 96 |
festival freedom windsor | 165 | new freedom mortgage | 95 |
freedom trail | 164 | freedom house | 95 |
freedom paradise resort | 152 | boston freedom trail | 95 |
freedom hill | 147 | freedom verizon | 92 |
freedom air | 145 | freedom of religion | 88 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "freedom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vryheid. (various references) | |
Albanian | liri (ease, liberty, loose, looseness), çiltërsi (candidness, candor, candour, frankness, heartiness, innocence, naivety, openness, sincerity). (various references) | |
Arabic | حرية (deliverance, independence, liberty, licence, license, unrestraint), تحرر من (discharge, set loose), تحرر (break free, cut oneself loose, disengage, free oneself, liberality, liberation, set free), سهولة (breeze, ease, easiness, facility, perspicacity, readiness), طلاقة (eloquence, fluency, glibness, volubility), إستقلال (independence, statehood). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свободен достъп, свобода (ease, glibness, independence, liberty, loose, margin, play, unconstraint), волност (latitude, liberty, licence, license), независимост (independence, independency, self sufficiency). (various references) | |
Chinese | 自由 (free, liberty). (various references) | |
Czech | volnost (latitude, licence, license, margin, play), svoboda (liberty, Svoboda). (various references) | |
Danish | frihed (leisure time, time off). (various references) | |
Dutch | vlotheid. (various references) | |
Esperanto | libereco. (various references) | |
Farsi | معافیت (Exemption, Immunity), استقلال (Independence), اسانی (Ease), ازادی (Immunity, Independence, Liberty, Option, Release, Relief), روانی (Bolubility, Flow, Mental, Psychic, Versatility). (various references) | |
Finnish | vapaus (liberty). (various references) | |
French | liberté. (various references) | |
Frisian | frijheid, frijens. (various references) | |
German | freiheit (latitude, liberty, license), Ungebundenheit. (various references) | |
Greek | ελευθερία (liberty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חופש (holiday, leave, liberty, vacation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | függetlenség (detachment, independence, independency, separateness), szabadság (franchise, holiday, holidays, independence, leave, liberty, vacation), mentesség (discharge, exemption, franchise, immunity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kelepasan (escape, the way out), kebebasan (emancipation, liberty). (various references) | |
Italian | libertà (liberty, loose). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 自由 (as it pleases you, liberty), 自由 (as it pleases you, liberty), フランス窓 (FC, flamberge, flannel, flick, franchise, franchise chain, freak, free, free agent, free dial, free kick, free sex, free skating, free talking, free tax, free throw, free time, free trade, free weights, freesia, free-software, freestyle, freeware, freeway, freeze, freeze-dry, freezer, French, French window, frieze, one size fits all, one whose livelihood is provided by part-time work, refrigerator, toll-free number, young people subsisting on part-time work), 不羇 (independence, liberty), 不羈 (independence, liberty). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フリーダム , ふき (accidental, addition, additional or supplemental note, appendix, butterbur, clumsiness, dying, independence, lawlessness, liberty, note, returning no more, rising no more, unexpected, unskillfulness, violation of customs), じゆう (as it pleases you, cause, liberty, reason). (various references) | |
Korean | 자유 (Liberties, liberty). (various references) | |
Manx | seyrsnys (autonomy, immunity, independence, inexpensiveness, latitude, liberty, self-determination). (various references) | |
Norwegian | frihet (liberty). (various references) | |
Papiamen | libertat. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eedomfray.(various references) | |
Polish | wolność. (various references) | |
Portuguese | liberdade (independence, independency, latitude, liberty, loose). (various references) | |
Romanian | familiaritate (affability, conversance, familiarity, knowledge, liberties, unceremoniousness), privilegiu (advantage, charter, Favor, favour, franchise, incident, indulgence, licence, patent, prerogative, priority, privilege, right), libertate (choice, clearness, latitude, liberty, scope), independenţã (independence, independency, self sufficiency). (various references) | |
Russian | свобода (latitude, latitude of thought, liberty, play, unrestraint). (various references) | |
Scottish | saorsa (deliverance, redemption). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sloboda (leeway, liberty, licence, license, loose, privilege, right). (various references) | |
Spanish | libertad (emanation, independence, liberty, licence, license, looseness, release). (various references) | |
Swedish | frihet (exemption, independence, liberty, privilege, scope). (various references) | |
Tagalog | kalayáan. (various references) | |
Thai | ความเป็นอิสระ. (various references) | |
Turkish | fahri üyelik, seçme hakkı (choice, option, right of choice, suffrage), onursal üyelik, muafiyet (dispensation, exemption, exoneration, immunity, release), laubalilik (familiarity, unceremonious), istiklâl (independence, liberty), irade (fiat, pleasure, self control, spine, volition, will, willpower), hürriyet (independence, liberty), bağımsızlık (independence, independency, sovereignty), açık sözlülük (bluntness, candor, candour, expansiveness, frankness, ingenuousness, openness, outspokennes, roundness, straightness), özgürlük (independence, latitude, liberty). (various references) | |
Turkmen | erkinlik, azatlyk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | свобода (disengagement, liberty), незалежність (independence, self sufficiency, self-support), звільнення (acquittal, acquittance, affranchisement, amendment, bounce, deliverance, disengagement, dismissal, dismission, ejection, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlargement, exemption, exoneration, immunity, liberation, push, quit, quittance, release, remission, remittal). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xuề xoà, sự tự do (abandon, abandonment, hesitance, hesitancy), sự khỏi phải. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhyddid (liberty). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ama-ar-gi. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lîbertâte, libertas, libertate, libertatem, libertatis, licentia, supervacuitas, vacuitas, vacuitatem, vacuitatis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | franchise. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 22, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apekriqh te o ciliarcoV egw pollou kefalaiou thn politeian tauthn ekthsamhn o de pauloV efh egw de kai gegennhmai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et respondit tribunus ego multa summa civitatem hanc consecutus sum et Paulus ait ego autem et natus sum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he seide, Yhe. And the tribune answeride, Y with myche summe gat this fredom. And Poul seide, And Y was borun a citeseyn of Rome. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the captayne answered: with a greate some obtayned I this fredome. And Paul sayde: I was fre borne. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the chief captain answered, With a great sum I obtained this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the chief captain said, I got Roman rights for myself at a great price. And Paul said, But I had them by birth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 22, Verse 28 |
| Albanian | Kryemijësi u përgjigj: ''Unë e kam fituar këtë qytetëri me një shumë të madhe''. Pali tha: ''Kurse unë e kam qysh prej lindjes!''. |
| Cebuano | Ug ang koronil mitubag, "Nabatonan ko ang samang pagkasiyudadano pinaagig dakung salapi." Ug si Pablo miingon, "Apan ako natawo nga siyudadanong Romanhon." |
| Chinese | 千 夫 長 說 、 我 用 許 多 銀 子 、 纔 入 了 羅 馬 的 民 藉 。 保 羅 說 、 我 生 來 就 是 。 |
| Croatian | Tisuænik dometnu: "Ja stekoh to graðanstvo za skupe novce." Pavao nato reèe: "Ja sam se pak s njim i rodio." |
| Danish | Og Krigsøversten svarede: "Jeg har købt mig denne Borgerret for en stor Sum," Men Paulus sagde: "Jeg er endog født dertil." |
| Dutch | En de overste antwoordde: Ik heb dit burgerrecht voor een grote som gelds verkregen. En Paulus zeide: Maar ik ben ook een burger geboren. |
| Finnish | Niin päällikkö sanoi: "Minä olen paljolla rahalla hankkinut itselleni tämän kansalaisoikeuden". Paavali sanoi: "Mutta minulla se on syntymästäni asti". |
| French | Le tribun reprit: C`est avec beaucoup d`argent que j`ai acquis ce droit de citoyen. Et moi, dit Paul, je l`ai par ma naissance. |
| German | Und der Oberhauptmann antwortete: Ich habe dies Bürgerrecht mit großer Summe zuwege gebracht. Paulus aber sprach: Ich bin aber auch römisch geboren. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Komandan itu berkata pula, "Saya menjadi warga negara Roma dengan membayar banyak sekali!" Paulus menjawab, "Tetapi saya lahir sebagai warga negara Roma." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka jawab panglima laskar itu, "Aku ini sudah beroleh hak menjadi anak negeri itu dengan membelanjakan jumlah besar." Maka kata Paulus, "Tetapi hamba ini peranakan Rum." |
| Latvian | Tad priekðnieks atbildçja: Es ðo pilsonîbu ieguvu par augstu maksu. Un Pâvils sacîja: Bet es tâds jau esmu dzimis. |
| Maori | Na ka whakahoki te rangatira mano, Na te moni nui i whiwhi ai ahau ki tenei taonga, hei tangata whenua no Roma. Ka mea a Paora, Ko ahau i whanau tonu no Roma. |
| Norwegian | Den øverste høvedsmann sa: Jeg har kjøpt denne borgerrett for mange penger. Men Paulus svarte: Men jeg er endog født til den. |
| Portuguese | Tornou o comandante: Eu por grande soma de dinheiro adquiri este direito de cidadão. Paulo disse: Mas eu o sou de nascimento. |
| Rumanian | Cqpitanul a zis: ,,Eu cu o mare sumq de bani am dobkndit cetqyenia aceasta.`` ,,Wi eu``, a zis Pavel, ,,sknt chiar nqscut Roman.`` |
| Russian | фЩУСЮЕОБЮБМШОЙЛ ПФЧЕЮБМ: С ЪБ ВПМШЫЙЕ ДЕОШЗЙ РТЙПВТЕМ ЬФП ЗТБЦДБОУФЧП. рБЧЕМ ЦЕ УЛБЪБМ: Б С Й ТПДЙМУС Ч ОЕН. |
| Shuar | Tutai "Wikia ti Kuítian akikmakmiajai Rúmanam pachiinkiatniun" uunt Kapitián Tímiayi. Tutai Papru Tímiayi "Túrasha winia aparka Rúmanam pachitkia asamtai, wisha Rúmanam pachiinkian akiiniaitjai" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Mkuu wa jeshi akasema, "Mimi nami nimekuwa raia wa Roma kwa kulipa gharama kubwa." Paulo akasema, "Lakini mimi ni raia wa Roma kwa kuzaliwa." |
| Swedish | Översten sade då: Mig har det kostat en stor summa penningar att köpa den medborgarrätten." Men Paulus sade: "Jag däremot har den redan genom födelsen." |
| Uma | Na'uli' kapala': "Wori' -hana pobayari-ku bona mesua' -a warga negara Roma." Na'uli' Paulus: "Ane aku', ngkai kaputu-kumi-kuna warga negara Roma-a." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "freedom": freedoms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "freedom": unfreedom. (additional references) | |
Words containing "freedom": unfreedoms. (additional references) | |
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"Freedom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farendon, Fereydun, Fraddam, fredo, fredom, fredor, Fredson, freedome, freelo, Freidzon, Frendo, Fruidem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "freedom" (pronounced frē"dum) |
| 3 | -d u m | addendum, boredom, memorandum, modem, officialdom, random, chiefdom, condom, corundum, dukedom, earldom, fiefdom, kingdom, macadam, madam, Madame, martyrdom, referendum, Sedum, seldom, sheikdom, Sodom, stardom, subkingdom, tandem, wisdom. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: deform, emerod, formed, formee. | |
-2 letters: defer, erode, forme, freed, fremd, merde, refed. | |
-3 letters: deem, deer, deme, demo, dere, derm, doer, dome, dore, dorm, dree, feed, feme, feod, fere, ford, fore, form, free, froe, from, meed, mere, mode, more, omer, rede, redo, reed, reef, rode. | |
-4 letters: dee, doe, dom, dor, eme, emf, ere, fed, fee. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: defoamer, deformed, deformer, freedoms, reformed. | |
+2 letters: defoamers, deformers, forearmed, forenamed, performed, preformed, unfreedom. | |
+3 letters: deformable, firebombed, foredoomed, freedwoman, freedwomen, furosemide, reinformed, remodified, remodifies, undeformed, unfreedoms, unreformed. | |
+4 letters: deforcement, deformalize, deformative, deformities, furosemides, premodified, premodifies, reconfirmed, reformatted, terraformed, unperformed. | |
+5 letters: deforcements, deformalized, deformalizes, fellmongered, flameproofed, formaldehyde, headforemost, outperformed, overinformed, preformatted, reformulated, thermoformed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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