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 most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
Freedom, that he always thought was outward motion, turns out to be this inward dwindling.
In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
If social media can bring the sense of freedom, it can also bind people into delusional cults.
What was the use of talking about freedom if they had millions of people tethered to slums?
It was not in keeping with our American concept of freedom and the rights of citizens.
In the name of God. Peace be upon all the freedom loving people of the world
Lenin is best remembered for his famous retort, 'Freedom – yes, but for WHOM? To do WHAT?'