Rudyard Kipling Quotes

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. We cannot just keep quiet because that is what happened during martial law. Our dictator then believed that he can do anything to keep himself in power.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.