Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!
Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 5
In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
Carl Sandburg
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
Michael Collins
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
John C. Calhoun
If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Attlee
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
Alice Neel
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
Viktor E. Frankl
I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
Daisaku Ikeda
