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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.
There must be an abridgment of what are called English liberties.
Work-democracy adds a decisive piece of knowledge to the scope of ideas related to freedom.
If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion.
Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty.
The state is not the source of religious liberty, although it should acknowledge and protect it.
What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man.