FREE

free, a.; {ME. free, freo; AS. freo, frio, frig, free.}
1. (a) not under the control of some other person or some arbitrary power; able to act or think without compulsion or arbitrary restriction; having liberty; independent; (b) characterized by or resulting from liberty.
2. (a) having, or existing under a government that does not impose arbitrary restrictions on the right to speak, assemble, petition, vote, etc.; having political liberty; as a free people; (b) not under control of a foreign government.
3. able to move in any direction; not held, as in chains, etc.; not kept from motion; loose.
4. not held or confined by a court, the police, etc.; acquitted.
5. not held or burdened by obligations, debts, discomforts, etc.; unhindered; unhampered.
6. not confined to the usual rules or patterns; not limited by convention or tradition...... - Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary 2nd Ed. (1983)

(We are not free; when over 50% of our hard earned money is stolen by fraud, via income taxes (freedom from excessive taxation) to support a central government bureaucracy gone mad; when we can't travel on "free-ways" or public roads and streets (freedom of mobility) without a drivers license, vehicle registration and insurance. (freedom of contract); when the nation's police are more of a threat to life, liberty and property than so-called "common criminals". (freedom from fear and arbitrary oppression) - TJL)

FREEDOM

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams

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"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health whether bodily, mental, or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to the rest."
John Stuart Mill "On Liberty"

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"In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box."
-- Steve Symms, U.S. Senator, Idaho