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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124
- Liberty
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913)
- Liberty
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Wilson’s War Message to Congress (1917)
- Democracy
- Liberty
There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.
Gene Wolfe1931–2019The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996), Volume 3, Ch. 4
- Love
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Dedication
- Virtue
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90
- Reading
Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 2
- Fame
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.
William Wordsworth1770–1850It Is Not to Be Thought Of, l. 11 (1807)
- Patriotism
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country… They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
Boris Yeltsin1931–2007Appeal to citizens of Russia to oppose the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev. (19 August 1991)
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.
Muhammad Yunusborn 1940“Eliminating Poverty Through Market-Based Social Entrepreneurship” in Global Urban Development Magazine (May 2005)
- Economics
I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.
Frank Zappa1940–1993Appearance on CBS Morning News (18 September 1985)—YouTube video
- America
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
Slavoj Žižekborn 1949“Introduction: The Missing Ink”, in Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (2002), p. 2