The repository contains 65 quotes in the category “Freedom.”
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Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.
Senator Barry Goldwater
1909 — 1998
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people to govern others. Every man is the best, the most responsible, judge of his own advantage.
Lord Acton
1834 — 1902
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
1834 — 1902
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
1904 — 1963
If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus’d among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.
Governor Samuel Adams
1722 — 1803
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.
James Baldwin
1924 — 1987
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck
1892 — 1973
Freedom is not America’s gift to the world. It is God’s gift to humanity.
President George W. Bush
1946 —
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Cicero
106 A.D. — 43
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
Thomas Fuller
1654 — 1734
To know to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
André Gide
1869 — 1951
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Eric Hoffer
1902 — 1983
There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley
1819 — 1875
Freedom is just another word for “nothing to lose.”
Kris Kristofferson
1936 —
Liberty produces wealth and wealth destroys liberty.
Henry Demarest Lloyd
1847 — 1903
The dagger plunged in the name of Freedom is plunged into the breast of Freedom.
José Martí
1853 — 1895
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
Dr. Karl A. Menninger
1893 — 1990
Freedom is a hard-bought thing.
Paul Robeson
1898 — 1976
When freedom fails, politicians use that failure to justify abandoning freedom, but when the state fails, politicians use the failure to justify expanding the state.
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom.
Malcolm X
1925 — 1965
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