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 public voted to leave the European Union. That means freedom of movement has to end.
It is not a question of privacy against security. It's a question of freedom against control.
We are hearing a speech of hatred. You cannot use your freedom of speech to hurt others.
Writing is absolutely the work of freedom. Not just freedom dreaming but being free.
There are two kinds of defeat. Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.
To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
Anarchism — a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity.