Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Freedom




"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people." -Abraham Lincoln


"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus


"Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice." - Unknown


"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying no to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political." - Ignazio Silone


"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy


"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Benjamin Franklin


Everything that is great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein


"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau


"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable." - Miguel de Cervantes


"The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him." - Henry Ward Beecher

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