The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
Freedom
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
-A. J. Liebling
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"
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman "
