They took away my liberty, not my freedom. - Brian Keenan (on his captivity in Lebanon)

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They can claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. - Kwame Nkrumah

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. - George Orwell

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second. - Jean-Luc Godard

Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. - Alfred North Whitehead

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. - Stanley Kubrick

We have no eternal allies and no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow. - Lord Palmerston

Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. - Rebecca West

What is the freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. - Salman Rushdie

The one great principle of the English Law is, to make business for itself. - Charles Dickens

The liberty if an individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. - John Stuart Mill