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 purchased without sacrifice is freedom that will not endure."James Fenimore Cooper
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The freedom to think is the freedom upon which all other liberties depend."Washington Irving
"The freedom to fail is essential to the freedom to succeed and create something new."Washington Irving
"We are all slaves to something, whether we acknowledge it or not."Edgar Allan Poe
"Freedom is the oxygen upon which the spirit breathes."Edgar Allan Poe
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."Mark Twain
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Mark Twain
"Unscrew the locks from the doors! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"Walt Whitman
"Freedom—to walk free and own no superior!"Walt Whitman
"I would prefer not to."Herman Melville
"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves."Herman Melville
"Freedom can only be preserved through constant vigilance and the moral strength of its people."James Fenimore Cooper
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and constant moral renewal."James Fenimore Cooper
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone else's life."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have confined myself within walls so I might better understand freedom."Edgar Allan Poe
"Freedom is a mighty bliss."Emily Dickinson
"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of freedom in its most exalted form."Washington Irving
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."Mark Twain
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Mark Twain
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."Mark Twain
"I would prefer not to—a phrase that contains the seeds of resistance and freedom."Herman Melville
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose one's own chains."Herman Melville
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Freedom is the soul's right to unfold itself."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"There is no private life left in America."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."Ralph Waldo Emerson