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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"Freedom is the first necessity of art."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Freedom is the natural right of all."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that one's very existence is an act of rebellion."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Liberty is the soul's right to breathe."
Sinclair Lewis
"Freedom is a responsibility as well as a right."
Louisa May Alcott
"Freedom requires constant vigilance to preserve and protect."
Louisa May Alcott
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"Freedom is a gift to be used wisely, not carelessly squandered."
Washington Irving
"Every person is a prisoner of their own nature and circumstances."
Theodore Dreiser
"Freedom without responsibility devolves into tyranny of a different sort."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"A woman's visibility should not be limited by convention."
Edith Wharton
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"The greatest freedom is in the acceptance of our limitations."
Edith Wharton
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"Freedom is the right to be yourself, entirely and without apology."
Edith Wharton
"Do you know who the real slave is? The one who cannot bear to hear an opposing opinion."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Let me be a free woman, and I shall be a happy woman."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The slavery of the mind is worse than the slavery of the body."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe."
Louisa May Alcott
"Women have been called queens for a long time, but they should be called free."
Louisa May Alcott
"Freedom is both a right and a responsibility we must exercise wisely."
Louisa May Alcott
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"To be independent is to be free from the chains of fear and doubt."
Washington Irving
"The freedom to speak truth is the foundation of all other freedoms."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are bound by the choices of our ancestors, yet free to make new ones."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Liberty is a responsibility, not merely a right to be exercised."
James Fenimore Cooper
"More than anyone else, a child must be permitted to think whatever it thinks."
Willa Cather
"I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe."
Louisa May Alcott
"I wish I could be a boy; then I shouldn't have to wear dresses and couldn't I get into things."
Louisa May Alcott
"I feel as if I should be a boy, and could be perfectly happy if I was."
Louisa May Alcott
"Let each person follow their own path."
Louisa May Alcott
"I have no regrets about living authentically."
Louisa May Alcott
"The worst form of slavery is the slavery of the mind."
Harriet Beecher Stowe