It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom assumes responsibility and most people are afraid of that responsibility.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. it seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. you trade in your reality for a role. you give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. you are free.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
I am a republican, a black, dyed in the wool republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.