Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
He alone deserves liberty and life, who daily must win them anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight David Eisenhower
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume
Truth prevails where opinions are free.
Thomas Paine
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To whom should we marry freedom, to make it multiply?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You cannot pretend freedom!
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard
The Tree of Liberty must, from time to time, be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
A free society is a place where it`s safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
George Orwell
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Charles de Gaulle
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
Henrik Ibsen
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
William Somerset Maugham
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean Paul Sartre
If you want total security, go to prison. There you`re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight David Eisenhower
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
When people fear the government, there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Paine
A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence.
Jean Paul Sartre
When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach