For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela
Quotations
Freedom
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
The amount of "freedom" with which you are living your life, can be determined
by the extent to which you have to suppress your desires under the pressure
from others.
-Deep Trivedi
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
How can you be free, if you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?
-Ann Marie Aguilar
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
"Going Out"
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-John F. Kennedy
"Kennedy's Inaugural address of 1961."
