Be Libre/Quotes

Useful quotes for the document. Debate these before including them and place them carefully.

General
Quotes which could go anywhere but most likely in the introduction.

Freedom

 * Wikiquotes
 * Freedom is the very essence of our economy and society. Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force. But what is also clear is that this freedom does not stand alone. It is freedom in responsibility and freedom to exercise responsibility.
 * The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. - Oscar Arias Sanchez
 * Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves. Karl Popper in "On Freedom" (1958)
 * We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure. Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies, (1945)
 * Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground ~ Mother earth will swallow you ~ Lay your body down, Stephen Stills in "Find The Cost Of Freedom" on 4 Way Street (1970) by Crosby
 * Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Edmund Burke, in a letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789)
 * We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Thomas Jefferson, in the US Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)
 * The degree of our worthiness to become a free people shall be determined by our ability to respect a lawful leader, to agree to the existence of an opposition, to listen to its arguments, and especially to put the nation's good above all party prejudices and private interest. Liberty is not one of man's inalienable rights' it is a desirable but difficult acquisition, and must be contended for constantly. André Maurois, in The Art of Living (1939)
 * The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time. Justice George Sutherland, in his dissenting opinion on Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board, 301 US 141 (1938)


 * To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others - Nelson Mandela
 * Quotes on Slavery

Knowledge

 * Wikiquotes
 * "Knowledge wants to be libre"
 * cf The "Information Wants to be Free" Myth which is about information wanting to be gratis.
 * Information wants to be free (Wikipedia).

Free Knowledge


Jimbos's vision (right).

Sustainability

 * The businessman and the fisherman (Ack Jean Kent )
 * The common and the goose: