If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
Quotations
Freedom
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
Only free men can negotiate, prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
-Nelson Mandela
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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 not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
