Notable Quotes
“MY definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
— Adlai Stevenson
Detriot Speech, 1952
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not vwant to hear.”
— George Orwell.
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”
— Mark Twain
“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
— Abraham Lincoln
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
— Benjamin Franklin,
Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
— Benjamin Franklin,
Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings.
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room.”
— President Merkin Muffley
(Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove