Freedom
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
- Adams, John
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
- Betti, Ugo
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
- Bryan, William Jennings
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
- Burke, Edmund
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
- Cromwell, Oliver
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
- Dhammapada, The
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
- Horace
Liberation is not deliverance.
- Hugo, Victor
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Lincoln, Abraham
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
- Macleish, Archibald
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 of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- Mill, John Stuart
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
- Paine, Thomas
A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
- Rogers, Will
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- Russell, Bertrand
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
- Spinoza, Baruch
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- Washington, George
