“How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?”
Jim Morrison
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
Thucydides
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope”
Winston Churchill
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
Mark Twain
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
