"The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali

"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." - Bruce Barton

"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist." - Edmund Burke

"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law." - Cicero

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." - W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown

"Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Only the educated are free." - Epicetus, Discourses

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship." - E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself." - Horace

"Liberation is not deliverance." - Victor Hugo

"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society." - Thomas Jefferson

"Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration." - Walter Lippmann

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired." - David Lloyd George

"Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man." - Archibald MacLeish

"People demand freedom only when they have no power." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression." - Thomas Paine

"A Country can get more real joy out of just Hollering for their Freedom than they can if they get it." - Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers

"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure." - Bertrand Russell

"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason." - Baruch Spinoza

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." - George Washington

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." - George Washington

"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint." - Daniel Webster

"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom." - IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA, in Kulchur

"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." - LORD BYRON, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" - PATRICK HENRY, speech (1775)

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (inaugural address, 1961)

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." - ROSA LUXEMBURG, The Russian Revolution

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." - JOHN MILTON, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

"O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!" - (MADAME) JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND, attributed, quoted in Alphonse de Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract

"Man is condemned to be free." - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Existentialism and Humanism

"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?" - KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet

"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., judicial decision (1919)

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, speech (1965)

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." - Adams, John in 'Novanglus', 'Boston Gazette' 06 Feb 1775

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once." - Long, Lazarus

"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent & sudden usurpations." - Madison, James to the Virgina Convention 06 Jun 1788

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) from '1984'

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) from '1984'

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." - Russell, Bertrand

"Loud speech, profusion of words and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation." - Shankaracharya

"Jesus only told half the story. The truth 'will' set you free. But, first it's going to piss you off." - Short, Solomon