From freedom of religion to freedom of speech to freedom of though, America’s great claim has always been it’s promise of freedom. Here are some of the best quotes about freedom…
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
—Alan Dean Foster
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
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
—Malcolm X
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
—Aristotle
Because you are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
—Barbara Hall
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
——Benjamin Franklin
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
—Carl Schurz
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Only the educated are free.
—Epictetus
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
—Albert Einstein
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
–Justice Anthony Kennedy
Patterning your life around other’s opinions is nothing more than slavery.
—Lawana Blackwell
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
—Lenin
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
—Malcolm X
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
—Lord Acton
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.
—Patricia Sampson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
—William Hazlitt
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
—Thomas Jefferson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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