They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Freedom
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
Either man is wholly determined or else man is wholly free.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
