Freedom is taking so much for granted, when you don't appreciate the small things that you have.
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.
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
Unless there is freedom of religion it is useless to speak of any other form of freedom.
The freedoms and values we enjoy in the United States, we owe to our veterans.
Over-dependence on oil has put an unpleasant bracket in our national economic freedom.