It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!
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.
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.
The EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving.
I am not a pacifist. I am for freedom, democracy, and human rights.
I have the freedom to dance to the music I hear, regardless of whether people can hear it too.
People in Monrovia were used to this kind of freedom of expression, freedom of movement.