We are free truly free

We are free, truly free,

when we don’t need to rent

our arms to anybody in order to

be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

- Ricardo Flores Magon -

Many politicians

Many politicians are in

the habit of laying it down as

a self-evident proposition that no people

ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.

The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who

resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

- Thomas Macaulay -

We on this continent

We on this continent should

never forget that men first crossed the

Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but

to secure liberty for their souls.

- Robert J. McCracken -

Here is my advice

Here is my advice as we

begin the century that will lead to 2081.

First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs.

Be alert that dictators have always played on the

natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

And don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you

respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free,

public, unhampered expression.

- Gerard K. -

Liberty is the possibility of doubting

Liberty is the possibility of doubting,

of making a mistake,… of searching and experimenting,…

of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical,

religious, social, and even political.

- Ignazio Silone -

Freedom has its life in the hearts

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions,

the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed -

else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower -

History does not teach fatalism

History does not teach fatalism.

There are moments when the will of a handful

of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

- Charles de Gaulle -

He that would make

He that would make

his own liberty secure,

must guard even his enemy from opposition;

for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.

- Thomas Paine -

The fact in short is that freedom

The fact,

in short,

is that freedom,

to be meaningful in an

organized society must consist of

an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.

- Samuel Hendel -