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Quotes About Liberty

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free
~ Dwight David Eisenhower
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties
~ John Milton
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
~ Nelson Mandela
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty
~ Samuel Adams
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing
~ John Adams
A hungry man is not a free man.
~ Unknown
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure
~ Karl Popper
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
~ George Washington
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is from within.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
~ Denis Diderot
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
~ Virginia Woolf
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
~ Sigmund Freud
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency
~ Epicurus
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
~ Clarence Darrow
What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~ Moshe Dayan
To be free is to have achieved your life.
~ Tennessee Williams
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
~ Robert A Heinlein