Liberty is an empty sound as long as you are kept in bondage economically.
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.
What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty?
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
The leaders and scholars of Jesus’ time had first enslaved themselves to the law.
The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues.
Power needs to be forever linked to freedom; freedom needs to be the limit placed on power.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
For freedom's battle, once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.