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.
What's important to me right now is my life and how I live it. My freedom, my choices.
The people are driving forward to freedom. I am quite confident that liberation will come!
Freedom is the possibility of isolation... If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.
He himself must be
the key, now, to the next door,
the next terrors of freedom and joy.
Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
We promised the Iraqi people freedom, democracy, security and a new and far better life.