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 body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
Marilyn Monroe
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"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John F. Kennedy
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"In free society art is not a weapon, and artists are not engineers of the soul."
John F. Kennedy
J
"The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe."
John F. Kennedy
J
"We stand together in a common cause of liberty."
John F. Kennedy
J
"The greatest threat to freedom is an absence of criticism."
John F. Kennedy
R
"We have the duty to protect the life and liberty of our citizens while preserving the foundation of freedom for future generations."
Ronald Reagan
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"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
Ronald Reagan
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"Man is not free unless government is limited; even the greatest nation must keep government under control."
Ronald Reagan
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"The most important form of freedom is freedom to think and speak as your conscience dictates."
Ronald Reagan
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"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and the willingness to defend it."
Ronald Reagan
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"We're in greater danger from those who would take freedom away than from any external enemy."
Ronald Reagan
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"I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: freedom."
Ronald Reagan
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"The surest way to lose freedom is to tighten the grip of government."
Ronald Reagan
R
"Economic freedom and personal freedom are intertwined; you cannot have one without the other."
Ronald Reagan
"I am my own woman, no matter where I am."
Audrey Hepburn
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
James Dean
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"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains but the presence of choices."
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
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"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"One day I will be able to use my freedom of speech and expression for the benefit of society."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"Please use your freedom to promote ours."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to free people from fear."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people have to take for themselves."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"I believe in American democracy, in freedom, in the Constitution, in the rule of law."
Barack Obama
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Charlie Chaplin
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"That is the reason I hate dictators and all the enemies of individual freedom."
Charlie Chaplin
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"I do not believe in fate—I believe in choice."
Charlie Chaplin
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"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
Marilyn Monroe