personal freedom
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s opposition or the frustrated hopes of young people hungry for more personal freedom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
"After all these years, I no longer know the feeling of personal freedom," he said on X.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
There is a way to stand by the rule of law and personal freedom and constitutional values.
From Slate • Sep. 19, 2025
As Frederick Douglass once wrote of personal freedom, "...there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within."
From Salon • May 17, 2025
It has radical and, in modern terms, libertarian implications, because it regards any accommodation of personal freedom to governmental discipline as dangerous.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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