Freedom Quotes
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"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Freedom is the ability to do what you truly desire."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Freedom is not the right to do whatever we wish but the strength to do what is right."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Freedom is the birthright of all men."Pierre Corneille
"Freedom demands responsibility."Pierre Corneille
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."Jean Racine
"Freedom demands responsibility."Jean Racine
"Forced to eat what is set before you, but forced to admire what you prefer."Molière
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."Voltaire
"It is forbidden to forbid."Voltaire
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."Voltaire
"Liberty is so sweet, one must defend it."Voltaire
"Nothing is more important than freedom except wisdom."Voltaire
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and imprisonment."Voltaire
"It is forbidden to forbid thought and discourse."Voltaire
"Freedom exists only in the imagination."Stéphane Mallarmé
"I am my own master; I acknowledge no authority."Charles Baudelaire
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."Denis Diderot
"True freedom comes from understanding necessity, not from imagining we are free."Denis Diderot
"Every man is born with the right to think freely and speak truly."Denis Diderot
"The most oppressive chains are those we forge in our own minds."Denis Diderot
"The greatest luxury is the freedom to think and speak as one's conscience demands."Denis Diderot
"The greatest chains are those we forge for ourselves through cowardice."Pierre Corneille
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and constant moral choice."Pierre Corneille
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects the freedom of others."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"All men naturally love freedom; yet few know how to use it well."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"True freedom is being master of oneself."Jean-Jacques Rousseau