Dynamics
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory. (André Gide)
What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? (Thomas Jefferson)
Liberation is not deliverance. (Victor Hugo)
If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the evil to freedom will continue to rise. (John F Kennedy)
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. (Charles Péguy)
The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind. (Marcel Proust)
What more oft in nations grown corrupt, and by their vices brought to servitude, than to love bondage more than liberty, bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. (Milton)
If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist. (Tehyi Hsieh)
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. (Daniel Webster)
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armour. (Margaret Fuller)
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. (John Stuart Mill)
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. (Marya Mannes)
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another. (Saint-Exupéry)
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. (Albert Camus)