Jack Vance Quotes

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Freedom has its risks.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

The audience wants control. They want freedom.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

Choice is an American value.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Everybody has the right to decide their own fate.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.