Freedom Quotes

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.