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 man is determined to act by that which is in his own nature."
Baruch Spinoza
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"He who lives according to reason is free in all circumstances."
Baruch Spinoza
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"To be free is to be determined by one's own nature alone."
Baruch Spinoza
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"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force."
Thomas Hobbes
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"A man's own desire is his own law."
Thomas Hobbes
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"The right to all things is a state of chaos."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Freedom consists in having no obstacles to the exercise of one's power."
Thomas Hobbes
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"I am resolved to live free or die."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Liberty is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has an equal right to it."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"The spirit of freedom cannot be bought or sold."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"The chains of slavery are forged by the mind before they bind the body."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"To live under the rule of law is to live in freedom."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Death is nothing compared to the loss of liberty."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Freedom then is not what Sir Robert Filmer tells us but a right born with us."
John Locke
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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."
John Locke
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"True freedom is being able to think and speak without fear."
John Locke
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"Every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has a right to but himself."
John Locke
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"In the state of nature, liberty is the perfect freedom to dispose of one's property and person as one thinks fit."
John Locke
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"All men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom."
John Locke
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"Man can become free only through education."
Immanuel Kant
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"Freedom is the very essence of humanity."
Immanuel Kant
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"The will to act ethically is the highest expression of human freedom."
Immanuel Kant
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"Entre individuos, como entre naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz."
Benito Juárez
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"La libertad no se hereda, se conquista."
Benito Juárez
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"La revolución es el derecho del pueblo cuando sus derechos han sido violados."
Benito Juárez
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"La verdadera libertad consiste en la obediencia a la ley que uno se ha dado a sí mismo."
Benito Juárez
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"La libertad es sagrada; es el derecho de todo ser racional."
Benito Juárez
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"La libertad sin orden es anarquía; el orden sin libertad es tiranía."
Benito Juárez
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"Un pueblo ignorante es fácil de esclavizar."
Benito Juárez
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"La libertad es el don más precioso que podemos legará las generaciones futuras."
Benito Juárez