Democracy and liberty only exist when your armed forces want them to.
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.
Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.
America’s daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons.
We are equal with men, and with the freedom to choose what we want to be.
I have never seen a man exercise the freedom to wear a veil.
Freedom is not to limit, but to share;
And freedom here is freedom everywhere.
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first element of freedom.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.