They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Freedom
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
-Toba Beta
"Master of Stupidity"
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
-Jonathan Hennessey
"The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation"
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
