Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ Karl Wojtyla  

~ Kenan Malik  

~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.  

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

~ Jean-Paul Sartre  

"Psychologically, it is important to understand that the simple fact of being interviewed and investigated has a coercive influence. As soon as a man is under cross-examination, he may become paralyzed by the procedure and find himself confessing to deeds he never did. In a country where the urge to investigate spreads, suspicion and insecurity grow."

~ Joost A. Merloo  

"No one should negotiate their dreams.
Dreams must be free to flee and fly high.
No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams.
You should never agree to surrender your dreams."

~ Rev. Jesse Jackson  

"To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do;
to most it means not to do what they do not want to do.
It is perhaps true that those who can grow
will feel free under any condition."

~ Eric Hoffer  

~ Frank Herbert  

~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez  

~ Benjamin Whichcote  

"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose."

~ C. Wright Mills  

"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force.
When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."

~ Dorothy Thompson  

~ Adlai E. Stevenson II  

~ Alan Westin  

~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger