We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Quotations
Freedom
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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."
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
-Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and Its Discontents"
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
-Thomas Sowell
"Knowledge And Decisions"
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
Freedom is only the freedom to say no.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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
