Quotes about Freedom
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
— Frederick Douglass
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
— Edith Stein
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
— Fannie Lou Hamer
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
— Thomas Paine
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
— Mark Twain
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
— Francis de Sales
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
— Harry S. Truman
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
— Toni Morrison
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
— Nelson Mandela
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
— Millard Fillmore