Richard Stallman:

"Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us
 with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."

"Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is
 hacking."

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics 
 alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

"In most cases, the user of proprietary software is expected to promise
 not to share with anyone else. It's wrong to make that agreement,
 wrong to keep it if you have made it, and especially wrong to lure
 someone else into making such a promise."

"We promote free software as an ethical issue, as a social issue.
 Computer users should always have the freedom to share and change
 the software they use. It's wrong to try to stop someone."

"In most cases, the user of proprietary software is expected to promise
 not to share with anyone else. It's wrong to make that agreement,
 wrong to keep it if you have made it, and especially wrong to lure
 someone else into making such a promise."

"I could have made some money developing proprietary software, and
 perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my
 career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and
 feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."

"I don't call this copying "piracy", because that is a propaganda word. I
 don't think it is wrong to copy and share information. Governments can
 pass laws against it, but that does not make it wrong, just illegal."

"Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit 
 like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance"

"This is the free software movement. The idea that we should avoid
 mentioning "free software" is always unacceptable; no matter what
 reasons might be offered, they are not good enough."

Eben Moglen:

"Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared
 will be shared, get used to it."

"The process of excluding people now has competition: it's called
 including people; and including people works better."

"it was never about 'open', it's about 'free'"

"When everyone can possess every intellectual work of beauty and utility 
 - reaping all the human value of every increase of knowledge - at the
 same cost that any one person can possess them, it is no longer moral
 to exclude."

"The patent law is inherently contradictory. When somebody says "I am a 
 free market capitalist, and that is why I believe in the free patent law" -
 that is to say that government should decide what is a good idea,
 should decide who had the idea, and that for 20 years no one else is
 allowed to use the idea unless they pay for it."

Lawrence Lessig:

"Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity
 we've not seen before."

"There has never been a time in history when more of our culture was as
 owned as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the
 concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as
 unquestioningly accepted as it is now."

Fellowship:

Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom!

For a Free Information Society!

For a world where freedom and knowledge survives the compiler!

Random quotes:

"If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise
 of programs." - Abelson and Sussman

"Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur,
 nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." - Aurelius Augustinus

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, I'm not
 sure about the former."  - Albert Einstein

"No army can stop an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders
 of giants." - Isaac Newton

"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." - Phil Zimmermann

"Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish.
 Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by
 patent law on written works.

"Photocopiers can be used to copy - ban them, control the libraries
 Typewriters can be used to make copies - license them
 Web sites can be used to publish illegal material - license/censor them

 Which leaves you with a state remarkably similar to the old stalinist block."
 - Alan Cox (about DMCA)

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
 build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the Universe trying to
 produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning" 
 - Rich Cook

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety 
 deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin