Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

28646 quotes

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"A mind confined is a mind diminished."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"The preservation of liberty requires eternal vigilance and reason."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"The mind is the seat of freedom; liberate it first."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"Servitude of mind is more degrading than servitude of body."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"To be free is to be responsible for one's thoughts and actions."
Catharine Macaulay
J
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Johann Goethe
F
"Freedom is not something that one people can grant another as a gift; it must be achieved by each and every person for themselves."
Friedrich Schiller
F
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Friedrich Schiller
C
"Freedom exists only where reason governs both thought and action."
Christian Wolff
C
"In the balance between freedom and order, reason shows us the proper path."
Christian Wolff
H
"The freedom of one person ends where the freedom of another begins."
Hugo Grotius
H
"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."
Hugo Grotius
H
"Freedom is the natural state of all human beings."
Hugo Grotius
J
"In the diversity of human expression lies the richness of human existence."
Johann Herder
J
"The spirit of freedom is the spirit of humanity expressing itself in all its forms."
Johann Herder
C
"The greatest tyranny is that which operates through ignorance."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"A mind denied education is a mind imprisoned."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"Women's silence has been enforced, not chosen."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"The human spirit yearns for freedom from arbitrary constraint."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"Freedom of thought is the prerequisite for all other freedoms."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"Oppression flourishes where knowledge is controlled and restricted."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"Knowledge breaks the chains that custom and prejudice forge."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"The human spirit cannot long endure the denial of its fundamental nature."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"Women's freedom of thought is as necessary as men's to human progress."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"The power to think is the power to be free."
Catharine Macaulay
J
"In law and order, all citizens find their true freedom."
Jean Bodin
J
"Freedom without responsibility is chaos; responsibility without freedom is slavery."
Jean Bodin
J
"Freedom is not the right to do whatever one wishes, but to do what is right."
Jean Bodin
F
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Friedrich Schiller
F
"Man is free the moment he wishes to be."
Friedrich Schiller