Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
I've found that there is always some beauty left - in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
Anne Frank
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
