He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.
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 love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty.
Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together.
I’m under no illusion about the continued barriers to freedom that remain for ordinary Cubans.
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.
We have a monarchy, the best form of government for rational and durable liberty.