freedom
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.”
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”
“The just man is most free from disturbance.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”