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