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.
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 have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty, or who finds freedom in it.
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.
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
