People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Quotations
Freedom
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
"In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer"
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
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."
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
