Alexis Tsipras Quotes

I don't want any man to have control over me.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

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.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

Liberty is its own reward.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

No man can given anybody his freedom.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

The power even to refuse a good ... confers unspeakable satisfaction, and is essential to freedom. Even the simple consciousness in the bosom of a freeman, that he is absolutely one—that he is the untrammeled artificer of his own destiny, is in its very self a fund of happiness, richer, purer, and more precious than could be purchased by all the wealth in the world.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.