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 mind as we know it can never attain to absolute freedom."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Human bondage is the inability to moderate and restrain the appetites."
Baruch Spinoza
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"The man who is guided by reason is more free in a state, where he lives according to common decrees, than in solitude."
Baruch Spinoza
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"No one can give or transfer to another his natural right; nor is there any absolute authority to which he can be obliged to obey."
Baruch Spinoza
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"The free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Liberty is born when tyranny falls and reason rises."
Baruch Spinoza
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"A free man's greatest treasure is his conscience."
Benito Juárez
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"True liberty requires the rule of law."
Benito Juárez
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"The rights of man must never be sacrificed for convenience."
Benito Juárez
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"Liberty without justice is merely chaos."
Benito Juárez
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"True freedom is found in obedience to just laws."
Benito Juárez
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"Liberty is the birthright of every human being."
Benito Juárez
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"Freedom requires eternal vigilance against tyranny."
Benito Juárez
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"The freedom to think is the most precious freedom."
Benito Juárez
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"The rights of man are universal and inalienable."
Benito Juárez
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"The strength of a free people lies in their unity."
Benito Juárez
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"The freedom to choose is the essence of human dignity."
Benito Juárez
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"To expect that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it."
Adam Smith
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"The market will regulate itself if you do not meddle with it too much."
Adam Smith
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"Freedom of thought and expression is the most essential condition of human progress."
Adam Smith
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"The greatest advancement of any society lies in the freedom of exchange."
Adam Smith
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"Every man has a right to dispose of his own property as he sees fit, provided he violates no justice."
Adam Smith
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"Freedom is the natural right of all humans."
David Hume
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"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others."
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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"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
John Locke
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"Every man has by nature the right to govern himself, and no one else can rightly govern him without his own consent."
John Locke
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"To be truly free is to have dominion over oneself."
John Locke
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"The worker's condition will only improve when he takes his destiny into his own hands."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Freedom without equality is merely the freedom of the strong to oppress the weak."
Peter Kropotkin