Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
Quotations
Freedom
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
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"
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness.
-Santosh Kalwar
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
