Freedom Quotes

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.