“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
William Shakespeare
“Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.”
Ronald Reagan
“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires”
Bertrand Russell
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
Wole Soyinka
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
Clara Barton