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
Quotations
Freedom
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
-Mike Norton
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
-Aristotle
