"Freedom is not merely independence; it is the responsibility to build a just society."
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.
It is not merely our freedom that is at stake, but yours as well.
The flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away!
Natural freedoms are but just:
There's something generous in mere lust.
This is the type of negative freedom and resignation that often engulfs the life of the oppressed.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Christ, then, raised men from religion as a bondage to religion as a freedom.
Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty.