Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.
No Rack can torture me — My Soul — at Liberty — Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One —
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.[L’homme est libre au moment qu’il veut l’être.]
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.
I have never believed that man’s freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.[Je n’ai jamais cru que la liberté de l’homme consistât à faire ce qu’il veut, mais bien à ne jamais faire ce qu’il ne veut pas.]
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.[Je n’ai jamais pu renoncer à la lumière, au bonheur d’être, à la vie libre où j’ai grandi.]
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.[Qui n’est pas capable d’être pauvre n’est pas capable d’être libre.]
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.