Freedom Quotes

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." "Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown." "Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be" "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." "Information is the currency of democracy." "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness." "You can live in the here and now and be free of the past." "Our founders did not try to create a nation where every citizen would be the same" "I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in." "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." "There's a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly" "America is an idea, an idea that’s stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant" "The Czech Republic has joined NATO, and NATO will benefit from having a country in its ranks that cherishes freedom and understands the sacrifices required to protect it" "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it" "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished " "We are the masters of our own destiny " "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people" "If we are not free, no one will respect us."