The Nature of Freedom
"In my soul, I am free."
- Paul Twitchell
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way."
- Victor Frankl ("Man's Search for Meaning")
"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
- Germaine Greer
"The truth is all might be free: if they valued freedom and defended it as they ought."
- Samuel Adams
"The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices."
- "John Quincy Adams" (in the movie "Amistad")
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage."
- Thucydides
"It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
- Delores Ibarruri
"Live free or die."
- Motto of the State of New Hampshire
"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 take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
- Patrick Henry
"Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last."
- William E. Borah
"Peace at any price is always too expensive."
- Anonymous
"Arms once taken up should never be laid down but upon one of three conditions: a safe peace, a complete victory, or an honourable death."
- Jeanne Albret, Queen of Navarre
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
- Mohandas K. Ghandi
"We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state."
- Margaret Thatcher
"Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people."
- Jane Addams
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."
- Henry Emerson Fosdick
"A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties."
- Aristotle
"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.... As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never to be lost, and science can never regress."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom.
Our thoughts, our words and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves."
- Swami Vivekananda
"Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
- Jean Paul Sartre
"Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence;
......the last result of wisdom stamps it true:
He only earns freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No man is free who is not master of (commands not) himself."
- Epictetus
"How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?"
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
- "William Wallace"
"A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man dies but once."
- derivative of William Shakespeare
"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."
- Harriet Tubman
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty! Free at last!"
- Dr. Martin Luther King
"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is a superstition. It does not exist in nature."
- Helen Keller
"The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Just food for thought...4/10/03-- Q
"In my soul, I am free."
- Paul Twitchell
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way."
- Victor Frankl ("Man's Search for Meaning")
"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
- Germaine Greer
"The truth is all might be free: if they valued freedom and defended it as they ought."
- Samuel Adams
"The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices."
- "John Quincy Adams" (in the movie "Amistad")
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage."
- Thucydides
"It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
- Delores Ibarruri
"Live free or die."
- Motto of the State of New Hampshire
"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 take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
- Patrick Henry
"Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last."
- William E. Borah
"Peace at any price is always too expensive."
- Anonymous
"Arms once taken up should never be laid down but upon one of three conditions: a safe peace, a complete victory, or an honourable death."
- Jeanne Albret, Queen of Navarre
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
- Mohandas K. Ghandi
"We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state."
- Margaret Thatcher
"Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people."
- Jane Addams
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."
- Henry Emerson Fosdick
"A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties."
- Aristotle
"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.... As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never to be lost, and science can never regress."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom.
Our thoughts, our words and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves."
- Swami Vivekananda
"Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
- Jean Paul Sartre
"Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence;
......the last result of wisdom stamps it true:
He only earns freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No man is free who is not master of (commands not) himself."
- Epictetus
"How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?"
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
- "William Wallace"
"A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man dies but once."
- derivative of William Shakespeare
"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."
- Harriet Tubman
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty! Free at last!"
- Dr. Martin Luther King
"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is a superstition. It does not exist in nature."
- Helen Keller
"The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Just food for thought...4/10/03-- Q
