Mao Zedong Quotes

All they wanted was freedom.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

Liberation is not deliverance.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

No people must be forced under a sovereignty under which it does not wish to live.

The most powerful single force in the world today…man’s eternal desire to be free and independent.

In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature, which marks and distinguishes the whole … Your colonies become suspicious, restive and intractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force of shuffle from them by chicane what they think is the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth …

My Lords, I look upon North America as the only great nursery of freedom now left on the face of the earth.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

We do not want to be anybody's pawns. We are an ancient people. We want our autonomy. We want sarbasti—freedom. I do not know who will take my place one day. But they cannot crush us.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Liberty Dearer Than Union

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.