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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.