They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Freedom
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
-Bob Marley
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
-Ashtavakra Gita "Ashtavakra Gita 17:4-7"
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Freedom is never given; it is won.
-A. Philip Randolph
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
-Aristotle
