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"
Quotations
Freedom
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
-Ronald Reagan
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free.
-Robert F. Kennedy
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
-Ronald Reagan
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
-Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
-Jean Paul Sartre
