Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
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 what we do with what is done to us.
-Jean Paul Sartre
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
-William Faulkner
"Essays, Speeches & Public Letters"
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
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
