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.
Distant or near,
in joy or in sorrow,
each in the other
sees his true helper
to brotherly freedom.
He doesn't understand I want the freedom to make my own mistakes.
Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere — LIBERTY!
Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"The more freedom is gained for women, the more we create a beautiful life."