Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Freedom
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
-Jim Morrison
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
-Mortimer Jerome Adler
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