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.
The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity.
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies.
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.
Every man of every color and description has a natural right to freedom.
Corporations’ freedom detracts from our freedom, and it’s a zero-sum game.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
This is not right, this is not the path of freedom for our country.
Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.