John F. Kennedy Quotes

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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

All the efforts of Lafayette, Kosciuszko and Garibaldi, and all the faith of Mazzini, Mickiewicz and Michelet, were defeated by the fundamental truth that the people they sought to liberate and make happy were simply not interested.

There are some people who believe that some people are not yet ready for democracy … everybody in the world is ready for liberty. It is a question of how you do it.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

Roger Williams... successfully vindicated the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, and effected a moral and political revolution in all governments of the civilized world.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

All the political rights and liberties which people enjoy today, they do not owe to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength

A group oppressed, is a group enslaved ….Whenever a group, a community of people, in unison, feels that it is being oppressed, and that it wants to control its destiny, then that community has a moral right to seek effective redress, or demand to control its own destiny as appropriate

Each man must have his "I"; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

When it becomes possible to speak of freedom, the state, as such, will cease to exist.