Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

You only have power over people as 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.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Rights aren't really rights if someone can take them away.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty of taking away your freedoms. –Uncle Sam

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.