The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quotations
Freedom
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"
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
-Patricia Duncker
"Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction"
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-Henry David Thoreau
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
-Thomas Sowell
"Knowledge And Decisions"
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.
-Vladimir Lenin
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
