Nelson Mandela Quotes

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

A man is born free.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Free men are the strongest men.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Men are free and claim the right to think for themselves in religious as well as political matters.

Liberty belongs only to those who have the gift of reason.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.