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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"Where freedom ceases, truth ceases."
Friedrich Schiller
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"There is no greater freedom than to live by one's own convictions."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains of his own making."
Christian Wolff
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"Liberty without reason descends into chaos."
Christian Wolff
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"True freedom is found in the discipline of reason."
Christian Wolff
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"The freedom to think is the foundation of all other freedoms."
Christian Wolff
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Johann Goethe
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"To a person who values freedom, there is no price too high except the loss of liberty itself."
Johann Goethe
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"A man must have his independence or he is nothing."
Johann Goethe
"Freedom of thought is the foundation of all human progress."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Freedom is both a right and a responsibility."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Freedom means responsibility for our choices."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains, but the presence of opportunity."
Catharine Macaulay
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"True freedom comes not from the absence of restraint but from self-mastery."
Johann Herder
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"The spirit of inquiry is the spirit of freedom."
Johann Herder
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to think without fetters."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely license to destroy."
Hugo Grotius
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"The freedom to speak is meaningless without the freedom to be heard justly."
Hugo Grotius
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"The rights of man are derived from his nature, not from the state."
Hugo Grotius
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"The freedom of one man ends where the freedom of another begins."
Hugo Grotius
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"The mind is the true seat of freedom, more than any physical space."
Hugo Grotius
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"Man is only truly free when he creates."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Man's most noble aspiration is freedom from external constraint."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Where there is no law, there can be no true freedom, only chaos and tyranny."
Jean Bodin
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"A magistrate who is bound by law is more truly free than a tyrant who acknowledges no restraint."
Jean Bodin
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"Those who possess much are often enslaved by the very possessions they thought would liberate them."
Jean Bodin
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"The advancement of human dignity requires the constant vigilance and sacrifice of free people."
Jean Bodin
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"Those who sacrifice their freedom for security deserve neither and will lose both."
Jean Bodin
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"What appears as freedom is the harmony of our actions with universal law."
Christian Wolff