Happiness that is not attached to external validation is true freedom.
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.
Fond of your freedom spurn the venal fee,
And prove he's only great—who dares to be free.
The main reason for the restriction of political freedom is [the lack of] social justice.
My spirit is not banned — I still say I want freedom in my lifetime.
Ye sons of Columbia, unite in the cause
Of liberty, justice, religion, and laws.
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom.
This too is not a limitation, it is a defence of freedom itself.
Remote from liberty and truth,
By fortune's crime, my early youth
Drank error's poisoned springs.
If someone tells you you are too weak to live with freedom, they have turned you into a child.