They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being…
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you…
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.
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