Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
