Friedrich Schiller Quotes

A Free Czechoslovakia in a Free Europe

Let's swear as brothers that we won't rest until we gain freedom.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Death is better than slavery.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

You'll be free or die!

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.

Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.