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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"The history of free peoples is never really written by chance but by choice."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Americans, indeed all free peoples, will always debate and discuss these big issues. It is part of being free."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A people that defend their freedom must be willing to sacrifice for it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Discipline is not the absence of freedom; it is its foundation."
Erwin Rommel
P
"Nations, like individuals, must sometimes sacrifice present comfort for future freedom."
Paul von Hindenburg
J
"The strongest chains are those we forge for ourselves through fear."
John French
D
"Military discipline, properly understood, is freedom for those who exercise it."
Douglas Haig
P
"Discipline is not punishment; it is the framework for freedom."
Pershing
E
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
Edmund Allenby
E
"Liberty is the most precious of all possessions."
Edmund Allenby
B
"The beauty of democracy is that it allows men to speak their minds freely."
Bernard Montgomery
P
"The duty of the military is to preserve freedom, not to diminish it."
Paul von Hindenburg
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and constant effort."
Erwin Rommel
G
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
George S. Patton
J
"The freedom we seek externally begins with the freedom we grant ourselves internally."
John French
J
"Freedom is choosing your chains consciously."
John French
B
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and constant sacrifice."
Bernard Montgomery
J
"The most dangerous idea is the one we're afraid to speak aloud."
John French
A
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Alfred von Schlieffen
A
"The greatest freedom is freedom from fear."
Alfred von Schlieffen
P
"I believe that discipline and freedom are not opposites but complementary."
Paul von Hindenburg
P
"I believe that every generation must earn the freedom it inherits."
Paul von Hindenburg
J
"Freedom is not the absence of responsibility, but the opportunity to choose it willingly."
John French
W
"I would rather die a thousand deaths than submit to live under a government where my word is questioned."
William Tecumseh Sherman
W
"Order must precede freedom in a just society."
William Tecumseh Sherman
W
"The spirit cannot be conquered by force."
William Tecumseh Sherman
N
"Liberty is not the right to do as one pleases, but the right to do as one ought."
Napoléon III
N
"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children."
Napoléon III