“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.”
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“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
“Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.”
“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.”
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.”
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”
“Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.”
“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.”
“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”
“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”
“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”
“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”
“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.”