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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"Liberty is the only law which genius knows."Victor Hugo
"No man is truly free when he depends on another's generosity."Victor Hugo
"Liberty, equality, fraternity or death—this is our motto."Victor Hugo
"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Freedom is the birthright of every human."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The greatest freedom is to accept our limitations."Mary Shelley
"Freedom is a privilege that must be earned through vigilance and sacrifice."Alexandre Dumas
"We are all prisoners of our own circumstances until we choose freedom."Alexandre Dumas
"Freedom without responsibility is license; responsibility without freedom is oppression."Alexandre Dumas
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being cast into prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."Gustave Flaubert
"One should, as a rule, respect public opinion in so far as is necessary."Gustave Flaubert
"The existence of evil is constant proof of the freedom of man."Gustave Flaubert
"To be yourself in a world which is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."Honoré de Balzac
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the wise choice among them."Honoré de Balzac
"The public has no claim upon me."John Keats
"Darling I wish our lives could be as carefree as a couple of birds."John Keats
"Freedom is not purchased by any price."William Wordsworth
"True freedom resides in the liberty of thought."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture on the lonely shore"Lord Byron
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture"Lord Byron
"Freedom is the natural state of the enlightened mind."Mary Shelley
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Victor Hugo
"Every man who lives has a right to live."Victor Hugo
"A man cannot think freely while he is enslaved."Victor Hugo
"What is freedom without the power to do what we will?"William Wordsworth
"In every human heart beats the desire for freedom."William Wordsworth
"To be miserable is to be bound by chains of one's own making."Lord Byron
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Freedom is not given, it is taken."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The freedom to think is the foundation of all other freedoms."Samuel Taylor Coleridge