The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quotations
Freedom
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.
-Leigh LaValle
"The Runaway Countess"
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-Jean Paul Sartre
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
-Jonathan Hennessey
"The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation"
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
-Malcolm X
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
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
