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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B
"La libertad es como el aire, no se valora hasta que falta."
Benito Juárez
B
"La libertad de conciencia es el fundamento de todas las otras libertades."
Benito Juárez
B
"La libertad política sin libertad económica es solo un sueño."
Benito Juárez
B
"La libertad es el precio de la vigilancia constante."
Benito Juárez
B
"La libertad debe ser conquistada y defendida generación tras generación."
Benito Juárez
D
"Liberty of thought and expression forms the foundation of all other liberties."
David Hume
T
"The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the sweat of free people."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
T
"The preservation of liberty requires constant vigilance."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
B
"To be free is nothing else than to be preserved in one's being."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"The more we are determined by external causes, the more imperfect we are."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"Men are most determined to do an action when they believe themselves free."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"The greater the external forces that determine us, the less we are ourselves."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"The greatest obstacle to freedom is not external constraint but internal confusion."
Baruch Spinoza
A
"Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a certain degree of freedom."
Adam Smith
A
"If we do not allow freedom of thought in matters indifferent, we shall soon lose it in matters of importance."
Adam Smith
A
"The invisible hand works best when men are free to pursue their own interests within a framework of just laws."
Adam Smith
T
"Every man has a right to everything in the state of nature."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"Freedom is the absence of impediments to action."
Thomas Hobbes
J
"The only true glory is in fighting for freedom and independence."
José de San Martín
J
"Free peoples are not indebted; enslaved peoples are."
José de San Martín
J
"The greatest glory of a free people is to transmit that freedom to their children."
José de San Martín
J
"I have fought all my life for the liberty of my people."
José de San Martín
J
"The music of freedom is heard by those who listen."
José de San Martín
B
"Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz."
Benito Juárez
B
"Nadie puede ser esclavo de quien no lo desea ser."
Benito Juárez
B
"La libertad sin responsabilidad es anarquía."
Benito Juárez
B
"La libertad de conciencia es el primer derecho humano."
Benito Juárez
B
"El hombre libre nunca puede ser vencido por la opresión."
Benito Juárez
B
"La libertad exige vigilancia constante."
Benito Juárez