If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.

for if this shall be, and they ratify your words, I no longer know this Athens as free.

That who is not free in his house, does not have his house. That who is not free in homeland, had lost his homeland.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

A wise man ought not to desire to inhabit that country where men have more authority than laws. For indeed that country deserves to be desired where every one may securely enjoy his own, not that where with facility it may be taken away; and that friends, for fear to lose their own, are enforced to forsake them.

It wasn't a country where a man could settle down and rest his head and say to the others, "Here I am for good or ill. For good or ill let me leave in peace." This was what was frightening.

A freedom in retreat somewhere would make freedom less secure everywhere.

"Is there any country, sir," pursued the history student, "where submission to Government is not due to fear?" "The freedom that exists in any country," I replied, "may be measured by the extent of this reign of fear. Where its threat is confined to those who would hurt or plunder, there the Government may claim to have freed man from the violence of man. But if fear is to regulate how people are to dress, where they shall trade, or what they must eat, then is man's freedom of will utterly ignored, and manhood destroyed at the root."

An armed insurrection ... would hinder and bring into disrepute this spiritual insurrection.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.