Edward Snowden Quotes

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Certainly the people have the right to say that they do not want to do something.

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

A free People will be showing that they are so, by their Freedom of Speech

The yearning for freedom of expression is universal. There is nothing uniquely American about it at all.

We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.

People have the right to say what they want to.

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

Don't Let Your Government Speak for You!

Freedom looks differently when you are the one it is being practiced on.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible.

Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty… because till spiritual freedom was made manifest, political liberty did not exist.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another.