Quotations about Freedom

". . .nothing is more important than freedom.  Nothing is more sacred than freedom.  Nothing is greater than freedom.  Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom.  Freedom. . .is all that makes men great.  It is all men have to live for.  Without freedom, what good is life?"

-- Allen Drury

 A Shade of Difference  

 

"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man."

-- Jean Jacques Rousseau, 

The Social Contract  

 

"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, the compact, liberal majority."
--Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People, Act 4