We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
Quotations
Freedom
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
-Bill Moyers
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-John F. Kennedy
"Kennedy's Inaugural address of 1961."
Freedom is limited by the need to coexist.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
