Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
Freedom Quotes
Presidents are over-represented here. George W. Bush has the most entries, ahead of Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy, which says more about how often presidents talk about freedom than about how well they put it. The better writing tends to be elsewhere: Madison in the Federalist Papers (1787), Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition (1958), Dalí in his diary.
Two of the most repeated freedom quotes are flagged. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is credited to Voltaire. Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote it in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), as a summary of his views. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance” is credited to Jefferson, but nobody has found it in his writings. The closest early version is by John Philpot Curran, in a speech of 1790.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Where there is seeming contentment with slavery, there is certain treachery to freedom.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.