“Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.”
“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”
“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.”
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
“All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.”
“It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.”
“The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.”
“Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.”
“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.”
“By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.”
“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.”
“Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.”
“The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
“Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
“Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”
“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.”
“If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.”
“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”
“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.”
“Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.”
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”
“It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.”