Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The misfortune which befalls man from his once having been a child is that his liberty was at first concealed from him, and all his life he will retain the nostalgia for a time when he was ignorant of its exigencies.