The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quotations
Freedom
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
-Mortimer Jerome Adler
"How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information"
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
