Kofi Annan Quotes

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

I support liberty; I support true freedom.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

Freedom is a noble thing.

I believe in Freedom as near absolute, as is consistent with safety. I believe in free thought, free speech and free Press... .

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

I'm standing for real freedom.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

The genius of a free society is that its citizens have wide scope to pursue their own visions of the good without excessive hindrance by their fellow citizens.

The world works better when people have freedom.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty… because till spiritual freedom was made manifest, political liberty did not exist.

Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women?