We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee we get nervous about her and admit censorship.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
When one makes a Revolution one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man we cannot rest.
Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy liberty individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.