1,014 Quotes Regarding Freedom


Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace

Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
Archibald Macleish

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
Thomas Paine

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
Will Rogers

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Ugo Betti

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch Spinoza

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington