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 human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural desire to fly."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Every act is a step toward either slavery or freedom."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"I am my own law, my own judge, my own executioner."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Freedom without responsibility becomes tyranny."
Giovanni Verga
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"Freedom cannot exist without the courage to defend it."
Giosue Carducci
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"Freedom is the oxygen of the human soul."
Giosue Carducci
"Freedom is the birthright of all human beings."
Giovanni Boccaccio
"Freedom is both a right and a responsibility."
Giovanni Boccaccio
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos in disguise."
Ugo Foscolo
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"Freedom's price is eternal vigilance and sacrifice."
Ugo Foscolo
"Freedom without responsibility is anarchy; the two must walk together."
Francesco Petrarca
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"The greatest freedom is freedom from the tyranny of our own passions."
Alessandro Manzoni
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"Freedom is not merely the absence of chains."
Giovanni Verga
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"The only true freedom is freedom from fear."
Petrarch
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"Freedom is the ability to choose your own path."
Petrarch
"Freedom without responsibility becomes mere license to harm."
Giovanni Boccaccio
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"To live authentically is to live in accordance with one's conscience."
Alessandro Manzoni
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"Freedom is the burden of choosing who we wish to become each day."
Luigi Pirandello
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"Freedom is the burden of being wholly responsible for what we become."
Luigi Pirandello
"Freedom is the birthright of every human being."
Francesco Petrarca
"Freedom requires eternal vigilance and courage."
Francesco Petrarca
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve liberty."
Niccolò Machiavelli
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
Ludovico Ariosto
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"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Ludovico Ariosto
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"The chains of tyranny are forged one link at a time through indifference."
Ugo Foscolo
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"The untamed spirit cannot be imprisoned, only silenced."
Ugo Foscolo
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"Freedom is the birthright of every human soul."
Alessandro Manzoni
"The most formidable prison is the one we construct within our own minds."
Giovanni Boccaccio
"Freedom is the birthright of every soul"
Torquato Tasso
"Freedom is the condition for human flourishing"
Torquato Tasso