Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

John Quincy Adams

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it”. –John Quincy Adams

Johnny Cash

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

John Diefenbaker

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Vernon Richards

“Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities as a means breeds dictators — big and small — and servile masses; government — even with the collaboration of socialists and anarchists — breeds more government. Surely then, freedom as a means breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society!” –Vernon Richards

Dean Acheson

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies”. –Dean Acheson

Jesus Christ

“You shall know truth, and the truth shall set you free”. –Jesus Christ

Emil Cioran

“For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion”. –Emil Cioran

Yasser Arafat

“For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers, and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, otherwise the American people in their struggle for liberation from the British colonialists would have been terrorists; the European resistance against the Nazis would be terrorism, the struggle of the Asian, African, and Latin American people would also be terrorism…” –Yasser Arafat

John Stuart Mill

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

Gavrilo Princip

“There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to illuminate my people on their path to freedom”. –Gavrilo Princip

Simon Wiesenthal

“There is no freedom without justice”. –Simon Wiesenthal

Soren Kierkegaard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”. –Soren Kierkegaard

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship”. –Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jim Morrison

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

Randall Jarrell

“In the United States, there one feels free… Except from the Americans — but every pearl has its oyster”. –Randall Jarrell

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world”. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

Skanderbeg

“I have not brought freedom to you, I found it here among you”. –Skanderbeg

John Milton

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

Peter Kropotkin

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society”. –Peter Kropotkin

David Ben-Gurion

“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism”. –David Ben-Gurion

Saul Alinsky

“The greatest enemy to individual freedom is the individual himself'” –Saul Alinsky