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Quotes About Liberty

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
~ Bhagat Singh
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.
~ Phillis Wheatley
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~ George Orwell
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
~ Simon Bolivar
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
~ Frederick Douglass
There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
~ David Hume
My Brain is the key that sets me free.
~ Harry Houdini
We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.
~ Unknown
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
~ Aristotle
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
~ Pericles
An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.
~ Sun Yat-sen
Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.
~ Angela Merkel
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
~ Milton Friedman
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
~ Al Pacino
It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness
~ Theodore Kaczynski
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
~ Edmund Randolph
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
~ Thomas Jefferson
...And in freedom, most people find sin.
~ John Green