Freedom

• The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. — Eric Hoffer
• A nation may lose its liberties in a day, and not miss them for a century. — Montesquieu
• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. — Abraham Lincoln
• Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do whatever we ought.... The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power. — Fulton J. Sheen
• Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent. — W.R. Inge
• A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. — Thomas Huxley
• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. — Thomas Paine
• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. — John Adams