They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Freedom
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
-Kris Kristofferson
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
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"
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
