Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament with tics inseparable. These tics cannot be seen, but we can feel them. - Nikola Tesla
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. - John F. Kennedy
If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support. - Herber Spencer
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way. - Will Durant
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Will the man in the street ever feel that freedom of the mind is as important and as much in need of being defended as his daily bread? - George Orwell
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. - John F. Kennedy
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything. - Will Durant
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. - Benjamin Franklin
What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side. - George Orwell
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. - Martin Luther King Jr
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