Freedom Quotes

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

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.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security for the minorities.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.